How I Write A Fiction Book
Posted 18th December 2012 at 08:08 PM by chrisg942
How to write fiction? I'm sure that been asked many times. Fiction in one of the bestselling genres on kindle, people like to forget their everyday lives in a book.
Well fiction is one of the bestselling items on Amazon for a reason. We could all use a little fantasy and forgot our everyday boredom sometimes. I know I do. When we read fiction, we want action and adventure without dealing with the problems, and that’s where the hero of the story has to go through to get it.
Fiction writing can be tough to teach and very tough to master. I'll teach you the basics and then we'll go from there. I can never guarantee that you will be able to write fiction, sometimes I can’t even write it, unless I have the right caffeine levels.
In a Damon Knight book “Creating Short Fiction” he starts by saying “Writing can’t be taught”. Yes I believe this to be true for the most part, but we can always teach the principles and what works. I will show you how I write and what sells. After that you have to make the magic happen.
Title
The title of your story is one of the most important things in non-fiction book, for fiction it isn't as important. I normally save the cover till after I have written most or all of the book. For me when I come up with a title for a fiction, I like to make the reader look at the cover and say “what the heck is that!” If you can get that response from a reader you will get more sales.
The cover and title should have colors that fit the theme and possibly a picture. I like putting fuzzy images that make the reader look at them and wonder what's going on in the book.
The four things that I always key on or should be should emphasize in fiction is the following.
Theme: (central storyline)
The Environment: (the world story takes place)
Plot: (simple plot with twists is best, conflict or what happens to make this a good story.)
Characters: (the hero, people you can relate to)
The Theme
Right now the two hottest themes are fantasy and the whole vampire craze. Writing in one of these has a lot of competition but it also almost guaranteed sales. Picking a theme is one of the most important things to take into consideration before writing.
I can't really recommend a theme to you, write about what you like to watch on TV or movie for instance. Themes like crime dramas, action adventure, and horror are popular themes.
The Environment
The environment is where your story takes place, maybe a spaceship, or maybe some distant planet with flesh eating monsters. Describe your world so the person can believe there in that world.
The Plot
This is how your whole story comes together, with twist and turns. Maybe you wrote about a bank robbery, and how many things changed in the planning of the robbery. Many times the robber's had something figured out, but more things went wrong. Like the safe was the different kind than they had practiced with. Maybe the people robbing the bank was the cops all along, but we didn't figure that out till the very end of the story.
I could write about plots all day pick something that will turn them for a loop, when they least expect it.
Characters
What I normally do is model my characters after people I know, or have seen on TV. Sometimes it's good to have a little mystery about characters, don't give all their secrets about their past. Maybe our hero wasn't always the good guy. This makes them easier to read about and makes the reader want to read more.
Outlining Your Book(The Way I Write)
Introduction (Prologue): If needed, set up your story. Where does this take place? Is there any background story in order to understand the main story. Maybe some of the background to your character’s story. This needs to be informative but interesting to keep your reader hooked. We don’t want them to leave before we hadn’t even started.
Character Introduction: Introduce the players to your story. You don’t have to give out all of their details yet. Part of writing a good story is to slowly give out enough information to keep the reader on edge. I know it’s hard sometimes to hold back, but believe me it makes the story better when people get an “AH HUH moment”. That’s why she did that!
Well fiction is one of the bestselling items on Amazon for a reason. We could all use a little fantasy and forgot our everyday boredom sometimes. I know I do. When we read fiction, we want action and adventure without dealing with the problems, and that’s where the hero of the story has to go through to get it.
Fiction writing can be tough to teach and very tough to master. I'll teach you the basics and then we'll go from there. I can never guarantee that you will be able to write fiction, sometimes I can’t even write it, unless I have the right caffeine levels.
In a Damon Knight book “Creating Short Fiction” he starts by saying “Writing can’t be taught”. Yes I believe this to be true for the most part, but we can always teach the principles and what works. I will show you how I write and what sells. After that you have to make the magic happen.
Title
The title of your story is one of the most important things in non-fiction book, for fiction it isn't as important. I normally save the cover till after I have written most or all of the book. For me when I come up with a title for a fiction, I like to make the reader look at the cover and say “what the heck is that!” If you can get that response from a reader you will get more sales.
The cover and title should have colors that fit the theme and possibly a picture. I like putting fuzzy images that make the reader look at them and wonder what's going on in the book.
The four things that I always key on or should be should emphasize in fiction is the following.
Theme: (central storyline)
The Environment: (the world story takes place)
Plot: (simple plot with twists is best, conflict or what happens to make this a good story.)
Characters: (the hero, people you can relate to)
The Theme
Right now the two hottest themes are fantasy and the whole vampire craze. Writing in one of these has a lot of competition but it also almost guaranteed sales. Picking a theme is one of the most important things to take into consideration before writing.
I can't really recommend a theme to you, write about what you like to watch on TV or movie for instance. Themes like crime dramas, action adventure, and horror are popular themes.
The Environment
The environment is where your story takes place, maybe a spaceship, or maybe some distant planet with flesh eating monsters. Describe your world so the person can believe there in that world.
The Plot
This is how your whole story comes together, with twist and turns. Maybe you wrote about a bank robbery, and how many things changed in the planning of the robbery. Many times the robber's had something figured out, but more things went wrong. Like the safe was the different kind than they had practiced with. Maybe the people robbing the bank was the cops all along, but we didn't figure that out till the very end of the story.
I could write about plots all day pick something that will turn them for a loop, when they least expect it.
Characters
What I normally do is model my characters after people I know, or have seen on TV. Sometimes it's good to have a little mystery about characters, don't give all their secrets about their past. Maybe our hero wasn't always the good guy. This makes them easier to read about and makes the reader want to read more.
Outlining Your Book(The Way I Write)
Introduction (Prologue): If needed, set up your story. Where does this take place? Is there any background story in order to understand the main story. Maybe some of the background to your character’s story. This needs to be informative but interesting to keep your reader hooked. We don’t want them to leave before we hadn’t even started.
Character Introduction: Introduce the players to your story. You don’t have to give out all of their details yet. Part of writing a good story is to slowly give out enough information to keep the reader on edge. I know it’s hard sometimes to hold back, but believe me it makes the story better when people get an “AH HUH moment”. That’s why she did that!
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