The Snowflake Process for Writing a Novel
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The Importance of Design: Good fiction doesn't just happen, it is designed. You can do the design work before or after you write your novel. I've done it both ways and I strongly believe that doing it first is quicker and leads to a better result.
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Feeling overwhelmed with trying to write your novel and get it organized? That happens a lot. Writing a novel is easy. Writing a good novel is hard. That's just life. If it were easy, we'd all be writing best-selling, prize-winning fiction.
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How do you design a novel? In my day job, I'm a software architect designing large software projects. I write fiction the same way I write software, using the "snowflake metaphor".
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How do you design a novel? In my day job, I'm a software architect designing large software projects. I write fiction the same way I write software, using the "snowflake metaphor".
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The Ten Steps of Design: But before you start writing, you need to get organized. You need to put all those wonderful ideas down on paper in a form you can use. Why? Because your memory is fallible, and your creativity has probably left a lot of holes in your story -- holes you need to fill in before you start writing. You need a design document. And you need to produce it using a process that doesn't kill your desire to actually write the story. Here is my ten-step process for writing a design document. I use this process for writing my books, and I hope it will help you.
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10 steps to desgin a novel, inspired by a snoflake fractal
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Step 1) Take an hour and write a one-sentence summary of your story. Something like this: "A rogue physicist travels back in time to kill the apostle Paul." (This is the summary for my first novel, Transgression.) The sentence will serve you forever as a ten-second selling tool. This is the big picture, the analog of that big starting triangle in the snowflake picture.
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The Snowflake Method for Writing a NovelFeeling overwhelmed with getting your novel organized? That happens a lot. Writing a novel is easy. Writing a good novel is hard. That's just life. If it were easy, we'd all be writing best-selling, prize-winning fiction.
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Step 1) Take an hour and write a one-sentence summary of your story. Something like this: "A rogue physicist travels back in time to kill the apostle Paul." (This is the summary for my first novel, Transgression.) The sentence will serve you forever as a ten-second selling tool. This is the big picture, the analog of that big starting triangle in the snowflake picture.
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Good fiction doesn't just happen, it is designed. You can do the design work before or after you write your novel. I've done it both ways and I strongly believe that doing it first is quicker and leads to a better result.
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on 2006-08-24 by toxmeister