There are hundreds of ways to start a
novel, but here are some tips from the experts as compiled by Jon Winokur (@AdviceToWriters
)
- "Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write..." – NATALIE GOLDBERG
- “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” - MARK TWAIN
- “I never started from ideas but always from character.” - IVAN TURGENEV
- “It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.” – WILLIAM FAULKNER
- “The secret is to start a story near the ending.” - CHRIS OFFUT
- "Start as close to the end as possible." - VONNEGUT
- “In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.” - ROSE TREMAIN
- “Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.” - ELIZABETH BOWEN
- “Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine...and then make them plausible.” - CHRIS BOHJALIAN
- "Every writer has his or her own method..." – JUDY BLUME
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