Starting your First Novel?

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Start Your Novel by Darcy Pattison on MimsHouse.com

Or, find inspiration and information in the article list below:

• Research for Your Novel
• Scrivener: Sculpting a Story
• Start! Again. And Again. And Again. . .
• Find Your Novel Opening: Quickly, Efficiently–and with MORE Creativity
• Openings: 5 Ways They Go Wrong
• Never Visited a Place? You Can Still Writing About It – Here’s the Secret!
• Subplots Fight Writer’s Block
• Storytelling: One Surprising Approach to Plotting
• How to Write a Book Series: 3 Crucial Decisions
• Do You Fear Starting a New Novel?
• Major v. Minor Revisions: The Surprising Relationship between Draft #1 and Draft #2
• Bad First Drafts–And Why They are OK
• Abandoned Story? Pick up the Story Lines Again and Create Magic
• How to Ruin Your Novel’s Opening with a Few Wrong Words
• Idea to Book: Outline + Character
• Awful First Draft: It’s Hard to Trust the Process
• Trust the Writing Process: Of Anteaters and Spider Webs
• Excitement: Starting a New Novel
• No Words on the Page, But I’m Still Writing
• Help Me Write a Book: 10 Books to Help you Get Started
• 5 Ways First Pages Go Wrong
• First Drafts: Spaghetti Problems
• Starting a New chapter: Defeating the Blank Page
• Setting the Scene: Openings that Orient
• Conflict Begins on Page One
• Openings: And the Winner Is. . .
• Trying 12 Opening Lines
• Your Story’s Time Line: Cut It Up
• Outlining First Draft Reveals Structural Flaws
• Book Proposals: Sell Your Work
• 9 Tips on Opening Lines & Opening Chapters of Your NaNoWriMo Novel
• Situation v. Plot
• Stuck on my First Draft
• To Tell or Not? Silence is Golden?
• Celebrate Progress
• Rhythms of Writing
• Uncertainty of First Drafts
• Improve Your Weak Opening
• Envelopes for Acts
• Time Line Helps You Plot
• Connecting Main & Sub Plots
• Your Novel’s Welcome Mat: Intriguing Titles
• Success: What Price Does Your Character Pay?
• Establish the Emotional Arc
• Midpoint Crisis: Plotting
• Mentor Texts: Novels to Learn From
• Rich Prewriting Enhances Novel
• Opening Lines
• The Lonely Brainstormer
• Nail Your Novel
• First page: An Editor Discusses Why It is Important
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• Opening Chapters
• Surprise Yourself in the First Draft
• 5 Resources for First Drafts of Novels