How to Write a Novel: Overcome blockage

By Clara Tiscar

This book gives a simple and a very useful guide to help you to write a novel. To improve your strategies and gives you the tricks you need to mentally unblock and find the ways to continue with your story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Feb 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781547517411

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How to Write a Novel

Overcome blockage

Clara Tiscar

Do you want to write? Have you had any blockages? Are you afraid of the blank page?

This book is for you if you feel identified with the following situations:

✓ I want to start writing, but I cannot find the time

✓ I'm stuck in my novel, I do not know where to begin

✓ I know the story I want to tell, but I cannot write it

✓ I am not stuck, but I lack the motivation to continue with my novel

Writing is hard, whoever tells you otherwise, lies. But you enjoy it, especially when you are capable to do it smoothly.

For some the most difficult is to start, while for others the tricky is to find the way once they have initiated and have exhausted the first ideas.

Writing a novel is a long process that start with an idea, with something to tell, and forcing the author to pull the thread and form, or discover, plots and characters.

In this book, I will give you tools, methods and techniques to never suffer a blockade. Writing is something that improves with practice and experience so the first tip is this: do not stop writing. Keep doing it and your own experience will teach you things. But do not forget that to learn you must accept that you do not know everything. At first, is very difficult to do well, until you find a problem you do not learn to overcome it, every mental block you suffer will be speaking of a mistake, something you must improve. Overcoming them means learn. You know: sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

Throughout the different chapters of the book you will find questions to ask yourself in each type of mental block. Many of them are the same questions adapted to each situation. At the end of everything you have a list with all the questions and another with the applied techniques.

This is the first book in a series in which I will tell you How to write a novel, and that you can read according to your needs. If you want to be notified of the new volumes and take advantage of the launch offers join my mailing list, you will also receive the best articles in my blog where I give advice on how to write novels and scripts.

How to use this book

You can read it like any other, from page to page, or take advantage of it is an electronic book full of links that will take you directly to the explanations you need.

My proposal is that you read it the whole first time, and in your usual use go directly to the sections that you need.

First, it will always be to determine the point at which you are stuck. To do so, click on the link above or simply go over the page. Let's start!

Overcome writer's mental block is reduced to three steps:

1. Detect where or why you are blocked

2. Find solutions and keep typing

3. Prevent it from happening again

Yes, you can avoid mental blocking. Being mental blocked is a state of mind. Having doubts about which way to take is completely normal, but you should not stop or block yourself. When you apply the techniques, you will learn with this book, you will continue to find the same doubts, and possibly the same problems but you will be able to detect them and solve them without having the sensation of mental blocking.

These kinds of things are part of the writer's work, they are not a mental block, they are only obstacles. Do you not put them to your characters? As well as you do not know what to do for dinner; do you feel blocked? I bet you do not, you will feel overwhelmed, bored of your empty fridge, but not blocked. You do not feel like you're not going to be able to cook or eat anymore. So, when you are faced with a dilemma or a complicated situation as a writer understands that it is part of the process, look for ways to find answers or paths and move on.

I repeat, the mental block is a mental state, we all have doubts and we all spend more time on some scenes than others, there are always parts of a novel or plot that cost more. Not being able to follow is indicative of something wrong, take it that way and learn to analyze the situation to find the answers in the right place.

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Detect where you are locked

The first thing is to detect where or why you are blocked.

(In each of these situations you