Well, I hope you did your assignment from our last post. Some of you may be ready to kill me because you want to get started on your novel. Go ahead, you don’t have to do the exercises unless you want to. However, when you get hit with writer’s block, feel free to do the assignments to get your creative juices flowing.

Now that you’ve got your ideas on paper. I want to say congratulations and great job. Most people resist doing this and it slows down their writing.

For this blog post, I want you to get out the butcher paper that you brainstormed on. Then tear off another piece of butcher paper and get your pencil and eraser. You are now starting on writing your novel.

1.      Look first at your main idea. There should be some a number of lines from that main idea to subsidiary ideas.

2.      After you have read those subsidiary ideas, decide which idea needs to come first, then which idea comes second, and so forth. Begin to number the ideas in the order you want them to appear. Once you have your ideas numbered in the order you want them to appear in your novel, go to step 3.

3.      Now, take your clean sheet of butcher paper and your pencil and place your main idea at the far left of the paper. Then draw a short line and write in your idea that you’ve labeled number 1, draw a line, put in idea #2 and so on. Now you have a time line. This is the next step toward a chapter outline.

I’ve put another video that shows how to make the time line. Just remember that you don’t have to write this fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThOPVs8s958

Your assignment for this week is to get all of your ideas written in your time line. If you have some ideas that you’re not sure of, put them in with a big question mark. You may find you need the idea and then again, it just might not work for this book. NEVER, EVER, EVER THROW AWAY AN IDEA. Because you might just need that idea on your second book.

If you have any questions, comments or complaints please post below. I’ll be glad to answer your questions. And if you have something you want me to cover, please let me know.

Have a great week.

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