Fiction Writing Tips: How To Write A Novel | Savannah Gilbo

 

Have you ever sat down to write your romance novel knowing exactly what your meet-cute is, exactly what your breakup looks like, and even what your happily ever after moment will feel like—and then still had no clue what's supposed to happen between any of those scenes?

If so, you are definitely not alone. This is where most romance writers get stuck—the connec...

 

You know what a great YA novel feels like when you’re reading one. The emotions are immediate. The friendships feel like the whole world. The choices feel huge, even when they look small from the outside. And the protagonist feels like someone becoming themselves in real time. But when you sit down to write your own YA novel, that “YA feeling” can be surprisingly hard...

 

If you're feeling completely lost writing your novel—like you don't know what happens next, or why a scene isn't working, or where your story is even going—this blog post is for you. 

You see, most writers assume they're stuck because there's something wrong with their story (and that can be true). But a lot of the time, it's not actually the story that's ...

 

If you're writing a story with a richly imagined world—or planning to—at some point you're going to face the same challenge every fiction writer faces: how do you get what's in your head onto the page without overwhelming your reader?

And here's what makes it so frustrating: you know this world. You've lived in it. You've built the history, the magic sys...