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Authors who wish to get their first novel written may find it easiest to stay on task if they plan a trip that challenges them. Armed with a journal and a fist-full of pens, any new writer will be able to generate more material if they simply get out and experience life. Their first novel could even be a humorous adventure autobiography.
What some budding writers do not seem to comprehend is that a best-selling novel is rarely written from the imagination of the author alone. Without getting out of their comfort zone and experiencing things worth writing about, few novelists would have ever gotten started. The author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance would have never been inspired to write that book if he had stayed in his room.
Establishing the best kind of trip to take can be a rewarding challenge for this newby writer. It has to be the sort of outing that will be intense and challenging, but still fun, funny, and memorable in a deep and profound way. It should be the experience of a lifetime, and change the writer so that he or she has a completely different perspective on life afterward.
In order to make it real and make it intense, it should be a trip where the author has little control over how events go down. Traveling with others on such a trip is recommended for the sake of safety, but if both or all are being challenged, it adds dimension to the story. It reminds readers that the point to life is to experience it, and allows them to relive that sort of wonder through the characters in the book.
Traveling to a part of the world where the culture is completely alien to what the writer is used to can also provide anyone with plenty to write about. A Westerner traveling to the East; China or India being the most obvious suggestions, is a solid idea. The trick to making such a trip worthwhile is avoiding any tourist destinations.
A great place to start might even be in the town where they live, but pretending to be a foreign tourist. Not only could that be a laugh riot to do and to read about, but it can certainly expand their perspectives on their own home town. It also provides new authors with good practice at talking to strangers without making them feel they are being interviewed.
World travel and train hopping may not be for everyone, but that does not mean that a trip away would not be helpful to the more cautious traveler. Not every experience is likely to generate a novel. The idea, however, is to get the writer out into society so they can experience more of the challenges themselves; then write about them.
Since not every writer is inclined to carry a journal or maintain hand-written pages like writers did fifty years ago, a recording device would work. In fact, having adventures caught on audio or video is way better in many respects. When reviewing the video footage later, certain clips may help the writer remember details about that moment, or that day.
What some budding writers do not seem to comprehend is that a best-selling novel is rarely written from the imagination of the author alone. Without getting out of their comfort zone and experiencing things worth writing about, few novelists would have ever gotten started. The author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance would have never been inspired to write that book if he had stayed in his room.
Establishing the best kind of trip to take can be a rewarding challenge for this newby writer. It has to be the sort of outing that will be intense and challenging, but still fun, funny, and memorable in a deep and profound way. It should be the experience of a lifetime, and change the writer so that he or she has a completely different perspective on life afterward.
In order to make it real and make it intense, it should be a trip where the author has little control over how events go down. Traveling with others on such a trip is recommended for the sake of safety, but if both or all are being challenged, it adds dimension to the story. It reminds readers that the point to life is to experience it, and allows them to relive that sort of wonder through the characters in the book.
Traveling to a part of the world where the culture is completely alien to what the writer is used to can also provide anyone with plenty to write about. A Westerner traveling to the East; China or India being the most obvious suggestions, is a solid idea. The trick to making such a trip worthwhile is avoiding any tourist destinations.
A great place to start might even be in the town where they live, but pretending to be a foreign tourist. Not only could that be a laugh riot to do and to read about, but it can certainly expand their perspectives on their own home town. It also provides new authors with good practice at talking to strangers without making them feel they are being interviewed.
World travel and train hopping may not be for everyone, but that does not mean that a trip away would not be helpful to the more cautious traveler. Not every experience is likely to generate a novel. The idea, however, is to get the writer out into society so they can experience more of the challenges themselves; then write about them.
Since not every writer is inclined to carry a journal or maintain hand-written pages like writers did fifty years ago, a recording device would work. In fact, having adventures caught on audio or video is way better in many respects. When reviewing the video footage later, certain clips may help the writer remember details about that moment, or that day.
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