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Commission the Characters to Take Over the Plot

When the first and crucial chapter of your book has been put to bed and your scenario is in position, you will do something so radical that it might scare the pants off you:

Commission Your Characters to Take Over the Plot…

Look upon your plot or central theme as the engine room and the characters you have invented as technicians maintaining it and driving the engine. You will have already recorded snatches of conversation between them (you ought to a bundle of these by now) and you will have involuntarily ‘listened in’ on the occasional tête-à-tête emanating from this team of virtual co-workers.

Now hand over management of the plot to them; lock stock and barrel.

Something magical occurs when the characters take over. They edge the storyline along in directions you would never have imagined, and mystically expand the overall theme and sub-plots.

Don’t worry, you are still in command of the story, but you are being fed on a regular diet of gold nuggets gathered up by your virtual co-workers from the inner labyrinth of your subconscious while you have been asleep…

Let the Characters Craft the Dialog

Now they are doing the walking, let them also do the talking. You wouldn’t send a lawyer into a court of law with a statement written by you to plead in your defence. Treat your characters with the same respect. They have by now perfected their own individual voices; allow them to express themselves in their own way; say what they want to say, not what you want them to say.

This is how to cultivate what the pundits call ‘a natural ear for dialog’ where the discourse matches the original voice of the character.

Paint Word Pictures

o Allow the amazing power of words to illustrate scenes in your story;
o Ultilize your words like the colors in a paint-box to flesh out the action.

Compare this brief text with the embellished version immediately underneath…

“As they walked along the prom in high spirits, the pretty young lady linked arms with her youthful companion.”

“As they walked along the prom in high spirits, the pretty young lady in pink cloche hat and purple pleated short skirt linked arms with her youthful companion. He wore outrageously wide yellow Oxford bags topped by a candy striped blazer.”

Do you see the difference?

o The first is a bland statement of fact;
o The second a word picture that sets the action in a definitive period in time and engages the reader to the full in the scene you are painting.

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Creating Your Own First Piece of Cutting Edge Fiction

Your head is brimming with ideas and you want to get started straightaway. Don't do it. There are certain preparations you must attend to initially.

Adhere to these age-old principles and you will rapidly become aware of the vital importance of progressive sequencing in all you do before you create your first piece of cutting edge fiction.

WHAT YOU MUST ALWAYS DO BEFORE YOU WRITE ANYTHING

Draw up a TTD (Things-To-Do list) which to start might be as modest as the one below - but it will grow because you will be adding to it as you go along.

1. Research what you think you know
2. Decide on a title
3. Novel or novella
4. Main plotline
5. Sub-plot(s)
6. List of characters
7. Era (period in time)

RESEARCH WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW

You may think you know all there is to know about your intended storyline but no writer is that clever…

If you haven’t already done so, engage in thorough research of the era in which your story is focused; the fashions, the automobiles, the technology, personalities, major news stories and events. Even if your tale is set in today’s world, still do your research.

Paradoxical though it might seem, facts are what make fiction perfect.

DEVELOPING A DEFINITIVE TITLE FOR YOUR BOOK

It’s never too early to start on this but don’t settle for the first idea that comes into your head; there will be many twists and turns along the way before you develop a definitive title for your book.

NOVEL OR NOVELLA

This is never easy to decide first time out of the trap; it is a matter of personal choice. My own first piece of published fiction was a novel Saturday Singles comprising 22 beefy chapters and 100,000+ words, followed in quick succession by another Get Fell In; 30 chapters, 60,000 words. Thereafter I have concentrated on novellas of 10,000 to 18,000 words which I can knock out in three to four weeks on average.

MAIN PLOTLINE

You need a plot or central theme and you have choices. You could crib one from the hundreds (if not thousands) available online but don’t be tempted because that will just brand you as a copyist whereas you want to position yourself as an original thinking writer of fiction. Developing your own exclusive plot stretches the imagination, gets the creative juices flowing, and germinates the list of unique characters that will move your story along.

SUB-PLOT(S)

Sub (or ancillary) plots are essential for maintaining reader interest but don’t include too many or you will run the risk of creating confusion and disrupting continuity. As a rough guide, I use a maximum of three in my novellas and up to six for full blown novels.

CHARACTERS

With outlines for the central theme and sub-plots to hand, now compile a list of the main characters that will feature in your story. Give them names and assign each a specific task. As of now they are embryonic skeletons but as your story evolves in progressive sequence they will become fully fleshed out living beings; living in your mind that is…

ERA

Your first work of fiction (like everything else you produce thereafter) will be set in a definitive era so make sure you do your research before you start writing; remember, facts make fiction perfect.

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Why has it become crucial nowadays to write cutting edge fiction?

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It’s an open secret that fiction is the most notoriously difficult of genres to break into as a writer aspiring to achieve the recognition that leads to publication.The biggest majority of competent wordsmiths activate their innate skills for years on end but all they have to show for persistent effort is a never-ending stream of rejection slips…

And it's getting more difficult with each day that passes.

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