Comments on: Starting Your First Novel

By: James

James — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:53:26 +0000

Wow, 13. Really?? That’s awesome.

Good luck with writing your novel. Would love it if you kept us updated.

By: noura

noura — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:05:04 +0000

thank’s so much for posting this article. i’ve been struggling with how to start working on my novel, and whenever i ask anyone they laugh at the idea of a 13 year old girl writing a novel (that’s a shocker )but really this was so helpful it got me on the right track

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:50:30 +0000

First of all, this is was a lot of help, thank you for writing it.
Second, in response to the comment from Paul Kelly, that is not true at all. JK Rowling, for example, was just a regular woman, not famous at all. She had to go through quite a few publishers, but eventually someone took her books, and now we have Harry Potter, the amazing series that we all know and love.
She didn’t need to add any “rude incidents” and she wasn’t a celebrity or film star. If you write a good novel, you can get it published, and comments like that will just discourage people’s creativity.

That’s just my two cents,

Josh

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:49:59 +0000

That’s just my two cents,

Josh

By: Damilola

Damilola — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:27:28 +0000

this has been a wonderful inspiration for me!as a child,i wrote a lot of short stories and i’ve always wanted to write a novel but each time i start,i have no idea how to continue!and sometimes i just lose focus altogether.but with this,i am ready to fire my engine and get to work!my book is gonna be out soon!i’m only 19 but it’s just a number.i hope you get to read it!thanks.

By: Noemi

Noemi — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:08:27 +0000

Wow this would have helped me at the beginning, but i have never had issues with writing the idea. I have made good progress in the story, but I still think it’s nice to know about drawing a line for the plot, and doing the info on characters, and secondary characters first, i’ll do that when I get home, thanks for this info.

By: Rick Kontur

Rick Kontur — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 05:55:43 +0000

The best advice I received (from a State Poet Laureate no less) was highly compressed as you would expect from a poet.Three words.”JUST FINISH IT.”

By: Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:58:53 +0000

I have written THIRTY NOVELS and only now have had one published and that was the first I ever wrote, twenty years ago.
I think only celebrities, film stars and politicians are the only people who get published. The rest of us get into the slush pile without even a look.
I could have had one of my novels published in America if I had added a few rude incidents to the story. I said NO and lost a lot of money

Paul Kelly

By: Renee

Renee — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 01:46:53 +0000

I loved this advice. For the past few months I have been tossing around an idea for a book series. I finally had the idea solidified, but couldn’t even begin to write anything. I was stuck and somewhat confused to as how authors were able to bring events in their stories together. This explained it all, and I am grateful to have come across this blog.

By: Ash

Ash — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:19:52 +0000

Thank you so much for helping me. I am still young but I have already decided what my story is going to be about. I was thinking to write a preface to describe my character (yes or no, what do you think?) I hope to finish my first chapters soon. Again, thank you so much.