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How To Write A Novel: The Snowflake Method
How To Write A Novel: The Snowflake Method
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.
Frankly, there are a thousand different people out there who can tell
you how to write a novel. There are a thousand different methods.
The best one for you is the one that works for you.
In this article, I'd like to share with you what works for me. I've
published six novels and won about a dozen awards for my writing. I
teach the craft of writing fiction at writing conferences all the time.
One of my most popular lectures is this one: How to write a novel
using what I call the "Snowflake Method."
This page is the most popular one on my web site, and gets
hundreds of page views per day, so you can guess that a lot of
people find it useful. But you may not, and that's fine by me. Look it
over, decide what might work for you, and ignore the rest! If it makes
you puke, I won't be insulted. Different writers are different. If my
methods get you rolling, I'll be happy. I'll make the best case I can for
my way of organizing things, but you are the final judge of what works
best for you. Have fun . . . write your novel!