Category: The Writing Life
To be honest, your question stumped me for a moment.
When starting a novel, is it good to create an outline of ideas or just to write the ideas into the story and hash it out later?
Either way works fine. It’s a personality thing.
Can I write a love story if I’ve never been in love?
Of course you can.
How does one begin writing a fantasy novel?
Fantasy requires building a world that doesn’t exist but must live full-blown and realistic in the mind of the reader.
So the first thing a writer of fantasy must do — after creating the story and the characters, of course — is to create the world that the story and characters will live in and it must become so real in the writer’s mind that the story will fit perfectly in it and flow smoothly and seem as real as if the created, fantasy world is real.
What is the biggest secret about fiction writing?
The biggest secret is that there’s no secret at all.