Learning to write - how to start (part 1)
There are many people who actually want to write a book. They have been thinking about it for a while, but they never got around to it. There can be many reasons for this, but one of them is often that they don't know how to start. A kind of fear of the unknown. Maybe it is possible to overcome this together.
Writing about something you have experienced yourself is easier than a fantasy story where you have to create your own world or a thriller. I will not go into writing about personal experiences, however varied, and other non-fiction stories. That is a different way of writing. No less inspiring or easier, but I have no experience with it. I write fiction and will try to share my experience with those who have a thriller in mind. If there is demand for it, I would also like to write something after this cycle about how you could approach a fantasy story. Other aspects come to the fore there.
Before we take the first step. A lot of people think that writing is ninety percent inspiration and ten percent actually putting the words on paper, or rather on the laptop. Believe me, it's the other way around. Writing a thriller that you hope will be published later is spending hours behind your laptop that requires a lot of discipline. I'll come back to that and also about publishing your book.
When writing a story, you have to bring the characters in the story to life. It becomes a movie in which you put the images on paper. The reader does the same. Reading is seeing a movie in your mind in which the characters you describe pass by.
Okay. You sit down behind your laptop. The big moment has arrived. You are going to write a story that is to become a book. You have thought about it for a long time and have the story in your head. Maybe not everything, but you know where you want to go: the plot.
Next blog the first guidelines. There are quite a few.