Want To Write A Book In 3-6 Months?~Writing Tips #shorts #writingtips

[GojiragamerXXL]

I have one tip for people: don’t overplan. If you accidentally or intentionally overplan, there will be no room left for story changes or different things. Either you just make a simple plot and change things along the way, or just start writing. Seriously, I created 3 stories and the first two I overplanned, and hated the outcome before finishing. Because I didn’t overplan I’m still working on my 3rd story/book, because I didn’t feel bored because I didn’t overplan.

Edit: I am sorry to report that my creative journey on my most recent book is either on a very long hiatus or done entirely. I have no more ideas left, and no more time/will to continue. Made it past the 5th chapter at least.

[tangerine]

I always create a VERY soft outline, once I originally planned for the MC to marry a certain character, but then I changed it to that character being the villain. Most of the time, I plan the beginning, plan some character development, and then plan a semi-finished ending, I ALWAYS end up changing the end, I once wrote something that was supposed to be a cute classic romance novel, it turned into some very sad and depressive angsty stuff😭

[Infamous]

It takes time to write a book. Don't rush it, and don't use Story over plot.

[Riflery]

It's good advice for some writers, including myself. I have a much easier time when I make a general outline.
But for many novelists, typing out an outline, and not letting the characters bring the story where it may, tends to suck the joy out of it for them.

Here's the number one writing advice for all you hopeful writers. The internet is filled with conflicting advice, especially for writing. Try out each piece of advice for a bit, if it doesn't work for you, chuck it out the window and do whatever it does work for you.

I personally find an easier time writing lines of dialogue for my characters weeks before I will ever get to the scene where that dialogue is spoken. Why? I have no idea, but works for me.

[mellowyellow]

I agree with everyone else in these comments, do an event by event outline. Write the events that need to happen to complete the story in order and how they connect, then just get to writing. This event by event should fit on one side of a notecard. This allows you to grow the story and make changes as you see. World building plotting is kinda important though, understand your world and set rules, manic systems if you have one, that stuff. It helps save you time well editing. Other than that, good luck!!! Write everyday and eventually you’ll have a novel!

[nataliealvarado]

What helps is to make little scenes. Like say your still at the beginning of your book, and you know what is gonna happen near the end. Do a little writing exercises and create different scenes that you want to add later, so you can at least remain exited for it. If your like “oh no I’m at that chapter I wanted to be and I wrote that chapter down already for fun but it doesn’t add up.” Don’t over think it, be imaginative, if you have to. Fix it or try to make the chapter before it add up, even if it’s a long one
Let me tell you what, after I summed up a few scene ideas,
I began to feel what the characters were feeling, and it got me wanting the characters to become real.
Get to know your characters!

[MagnetMagicGirl]

I always heavily plan the beginning, have an idea for the end, then brainstorm possible scenes for the middle. It saves a lot of time when you don't have to rework a hard and fast outline when you think of better ideas.

[Maria-jqzv]

I’ve only ever finished two books. For both of them, I had a notebook that I wrote the stories in. I would carry the notebook everywhere. And whenever I had a bit of down time, I would write. That really helped me, and I finished both books in a few months each.

[shanerdude]

No plot no problem by Chris batey. Basically teaches you to write 50k words in 30 days, most important lesson is finishing. As well as teaching you to write a lot of words per day. After which you can just scale. I’ve done 9 nanaos, 7 in a year. Last year I I got paid to ghostwrite a 90k word novel. Took me two months. Planning doesn’t do anything if you don’t sit down and execute. It’s that simple, sit down and just write

[jacobpage]

Your first draft shouldnt take you that long, just write daily. Its the shit after that's the real struggle.

[EmmaBennetAuthor]

Yes! You can write so much more quickly when you have a proper structure! Subscribed.x

[HahaGirly]

In my opinion the characters are more important in the story, your reader has to feel something when they pick up your book and they can’t really relate to the plot so characters are the way to go. Let’s say in your book your main character breaks their arm, ok big deal but why does it matter to your character, if your reader can’t see why this is so important to your characters then why is it important to them. So let’s add some spice 🌶. Your character is an Olympic gymnast who competes on bars, while driving to the hotel they get in a car crash ending them up with a broken arm. Oh now it’s there, this character can’t compete in the Olympics anymore, now we know why this is such a big deal but now they story comes in. Wheather that’s them learning to heal and in the end competing once more or their internal journey. I would personally go with the internal journey, what’s an internal journey one may ask. Well it’s exactly what it sounds like, for your reader to really connect with your character they have to have something to relate to them with and it’s not enough if your character broke their arm and maybe you reader broke their arm once, you want to be able to hook any reader with your writing. So what’s something everyone can relate to, INTERNAL CONFLICT. We ALL have internal conflict, a desire a fear and a misbelief and that is exactly the key to a good story. For example, everybody knows frozen blew up! It was really big, why, internal conflict. Look at Elsa, her desire is to be loved for who she is and be able to show her true colors, but her fear gets in the way of that her fear is that everybody will see her as a monster and she won’t be accepted making her misbelief be that she HAS to keep her powers hidden to be accepted so that’s exactly what she does, till the plot comes along and LET IT Anyway you can learn A LOT about this topic hre on YouTube, there are so many amazing channels. I hope this helps. *mic drop*❤ I hope everybody has an extravagantly amazing day 😝

[MoonlitBookworm]

I hate making a structure though because it easily gets boring and rarely leaves room for major changes.

[MrYtp]

Honestly I just get a general idea and let the words flow out, and the story unfold. I write one chapter at a time and then read the chapter make changes to the wording where it’s needed then I right the next chapter and so on so forth until the story comes to a close.

[didyoujust]

I've been writing for 6 months and mine is still not done. I'm on 60, 000 words, had a decent plot outline pretty much and I write every single day. 🧐

[neofulcrum]

I’m still checking my outline and preparing to write the rough draft.

[emilymanire]

Ooo I read the Wheel of Time series, really good. Robert Jordan was heavy on descriptive writing. Hoping a season 2 comes out for the shows

[jimgilbert]

3 to 6 months?
That's too long. It generally takes me about 2 months to write a book, with around 2 extra weeks for revisions. If it takes me 3 months, it's because I had a bit of writer's block somewhere in the midst of it all.

Plotting? Outline?
Hmm... I don't really plot out the whole book, and I definitely don't do an outline. I figure out the main events in the book, and everything in between is kind of flying-by-the-pants writing to connect them all together into a cohesive whole. I've found this let's me be flexible if something comes up that I want to add to my book. For example:
When I was writing my first book about a haunted house that takes place in a small town outside of Charleston (SC), I stumbled across a ghost legend about Charleston that harkens back to the days of the pirate blockade of the city, back when the city was called Charles Town. I so enjoyed the legend that I worked it into my book as a chapter as a kind of means of knocking around my MC a little bit more. Besides, it was pretty cool to include a "true" ghost story into the middle of my fictional work.

[jankyfluffy]

The structure has been a big issue for me. I am okay at overarching structure but I am learning my chapter via chapter structure could be a lot better.

[stebbigunn]

I wrote my first book in 5 months, 2nd book took 3 months and a week. And if i werent putting all focus on editing those 2 i would have written my 3rd book in little less than 3 months.