How do you admisnister your next book? When I get ideas for my next story, I quickly think up scenes and conversations that I'll love to put in there. I have to plan and structure the storyline of my book otherwise it'll run off track, but often when I write the story seems to take a turn I hadn't planned because the turn simply feels more natural. This often makes the work I put into the skeleton redundant and the scenes and conversations might not really fit anymore. This makes me wonder, how do you plan and structure your book in order to avoid this?
Margaret. I am a novice writer, but I hope that my guide will continue to evolve.
I hope that some of the tips will save want-to-be authors time, because it is a long exhausting struggle writing a novel.
I would like to say to Adrian - thank you very much for posting your tips. And more importantly allowing people to use it freely. You put my post to shame but I really enjoyed reading yours. Thank you for the work it took to compile that document. I really appreciate it. As I read over it I was thinking about my story and I could see were I could change/re-work various things. Thank you again.
It looks like that's answered your question... put that lot in your pipe and smoke it.
Very good advice Adrian.