The Beginners Checklist to Writing a Novel - WritersLife.org

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Hi I'm Jody from riders life's at work

and today we'll be talking about the

beginner's checklist to writing a novel

you think the opening to every novel is

different that perhaps there is no right

or wrong way to start we have all heard

the phrase begin at the beginning

but what exactly does that mean in fact

there are strategies you can employ when

starting your novel that will give it a

greater chance of success remember while

most people might not judge a book by

its cover if you haven't grabbed a

person's attention before the first

chapter is through you don't stand much

of a chance of them continuing the

opening of your book needs to be

powerful and exciting it needs to reveal

enough of the characters and their

stories to engage the reader and make

them want to find out more there are in

fact only four good ways you can start

your novel and almost every successful

book will fit into one of them pick one

of these approaches and you are far more

likely to keep your readers interested

the prologue opening your book with a

prologue is a clever way of engaging the

reader from the beginning you take the

reader to a time far earlier than the

present story and describe a scene that

reveals some of the background or a

standalone scene that intrigues the

reader and will have significance later

in the book a prologue helps establish

why things are the way they are it hints

that action later to come it can be used

to create suspense intrigue and delights

a prologue sets the tone for your novel

without necessarily having to bring any

of your main characters into it the

action opening another classic way to

start your novel is to open it with a

scene where your protagonist is in the

middle of some action action which is

relatives in the main story the action

doesn't have to be the helicopter

exploding in the sky but it needs to be

something which relates to the core of

the story whether it's your heroes daily

routine a fight which catalyst is the

breakdown of the relationship a car

crash anything where you see your

character doing something interesting

something which reveals a little about

them that will spark the readers

interest and keep them at reading on

starting in the middle a rather more

unusual approach is to start your novel

in the middle of the story

the lot has already happened and you

want to introduce your protagonist

having been already deeply affected by

these events and this might be the best

way to do it much of your story is then

told in Reverse explaining how things

came to be this opening can be very

effective if you write it well as

readers will immediately want to know

the how and why of it all and therefore

it will continue to read your book in

order to find out the frame device

another common way to begin your first

chapter is a tell a story within your

story an example of a frame device would

be a character in your story settling

down to read a book which then becomes

the main story this is a clever way of

coaxing the reader in as writing about

someone being interested and intrigued

by your story makes the actual reader

trust and it must be worth reading -

this device is also used to make huge

jumps in the story as you can have a

narrator summarize a long passage of

time in just a single sentence for

example it continued this way for years

taking time to consider how to approach

the first chapter of your book is so

important find the one that works best

for you and thanks strategically and you

will have a better chance of drawing

your reader in as well as bringing out

the best in your story - don't forget if

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