It uses the actual process of working to generate more thoughts and more detail…so you only ever need to make incremental changes to what you did before. It doesn’t ask for a ton of detail upfront before it’s settled in your mind. The reason this method works is that it works the way the human brain works. This time you tease it out into five segments with 1 sentence (or so) for each one. Then you go back to the idea of your story.What’s the setting of your story? One sentence there, please.Who’s the protagonist (hero or heroine) of your story.What’s the idea of your novel? Write it down in one sentence.(The idea, by the way, was first developed by Randy Ingermanson – so, thanks, Randy.) It’s a much simpler way to structure your story… and will give you a much better story as well. The way the Snowflake Method works is much cleverer. Yes, you can fix it, but it’s much easier to do things right in the first place. What you’re likely to find is a mess of a first draft. I’ve written a lot of books and I’ve never once succeeded by attempting this technique. So you don’t build your outline like this: (For a reminder of plot basics, go here.) The idea of the “Snowflake” method is that it’s circular and incremental.
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So this post is going to tell you how to build up a novel outline, piece by piece. What’s The Snowflake Method, And Why Use It? Keep adding details until you’re ready to write.Expand your story description to 2 pages.Add a beginning, middle and end to your story description.How To Plot A Novel Using The Snowflake Method: We want an easy way to write a good one.Īre you with me? You are? Then let’s go. We don’t want an easy way to write a bad story. We’re going to plan out an entire structure for a novel – a complete story outline, in fact – and we’re going to do it easily. So this post is going to tell you how NOT to write a novel the way I tried to do it that second time. You’re much less likely to go wrong as you write it. If you have an outline of your novel – a structure in fact – You’ve figured out not just that you want to start writing a novel, but that you want to plan it too.
You’re reading this post because you’re smarter than I was back then.
Which I had to figure out and plan from scratch. But from my second novel, which I had to wrestle into existence. Not from my first novel, which did fine, but which just landed in my head and on the page thanks to some benevolent higher power. (We got an offer actually, and accepted it, but the company went down in flames before I got any cash.)Īnd I date my writing career – my real writing career – from there. It got entered into one of the UK’s biggest summer book promotions. I rewrote that novel and this time it did fine. So I went home, opened up the file on my computer. My second book was so bad that my editor basically called me in and told me that it was completely unpublishable in its current form. Of course I don’t need to plan my next novel. It sold for plenty of money and went on to become a bestseller. I didn’t actually do anything by means of any preparation at all.Īs it happened, that book worked out well. When I wrote my first novel, I had no idea the project was hard.
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