I’ve always wanted to write a novel. It’s been something I’ve been thinking about for years, but I never knew what I wanted to write about. I just knew that one day I wanted to do it. I’m proud to announce that I’ve finally started writing my first novel!
In the summer of 2009 I started toying with a couple of ideas and talking them out with my husband. After some deliberation and consideration, I settled on an idea that just felt ‘right’ and got to work writing my very first contemporary romance novel! I successfully wrote the first few pages and then got stuck. Very stuck! I knew where I wanted my story to go, but I had no idea how it would get there. Who were my characters? What were they like? How would their romance develop? I decided very quickly that I needed to stop writing the novel I’d only just started and focus my attention on an outline.
The outline took a little while to write. Longer than I’d thought it would. I didn’t even know how to write an outline. Was there a specific way I was supposed to write one? I had no idea! But, I did have a story to tell so I stopped worrying about how an outline was supposed to look, and just did what felt natural. Ten pages later, I had an outline — yikes, that seemed really long! — and a path to follow to take me from page one to the end of the story.
So, I’ve started writing my novel, and I have to say that so far it’s going well. Not every day is an easy writing day, but I do what I can and I keep plunking along on my laptop. And… I do a lot of editing too!
It begins, my journey to write to ‘the end’.
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Reagan says:
April 15, 2010 at 11:20 pm (UTC -4 )
Added to my googlereader subscriptions. Can’t wait to read more!