If you could write a book on anything, what would it be.
Even when you write an essay or produce any sort of work that you are proud of here at uni, it is so much worse for a tutor to throw it back in your face telling you that it’s not good enough. And that’s far worse than handing in something you knew well to be very mediocre only to have your suspicions confirmed later in your tute. But, giving into that fear of making yourself vulnerable.
Get a sheet of paper and write down what you know about your future book, or interests you’d like your story to make room for, to explore. That might be very little at first. It might be no more than: Antarctic setting; Seismology; Secret weapons testing; That has no characters, no plot arc, no meaningful line of development, but it’s a start.
I don’t know the origin of the “write what you know” logic. A lot of folks attribute it to Hemingway, but what I find is his having said this: “From all things that you know and all those.
You could fill a book with all the things you don't know,girl. In fact-I think someone may have already written it.But that's neither here nor there.
You don’t just sit down to write a book. That's not how writing works. You write a sentence, then a paragraph, then maybe if you’re lucky, an entire chapter. Writing happens in fits and starts, in bits and pieces. It’s a process. The way you get the work done is not complicated. You take one step, then another and another. This guide walks you through the three phases of writing a book.
Similarly, conclusions wrap up what they just said, but how can you write one if you don’t know what you just said! Whether you’re a plotter or a pantser, it’s a perplexing conundrum that feels ripped straight from The Matrix. Most professional writers don’t care much for conundrums, not when they have a deadline, kids to feed and an overweight cat to manicure. Instead, they lay out.
If you or your character are in the woods in winter anywhere north, you’ll hear a lot of that (and be scared out of your mind, if you don’t know there isn’t really a maniac with a gun behind you. Unless there is.).