First things first, one thing I would recommend is incorporating what you know and what you care about in your first novel. This will cause your story to flow a bit easier. Another thing about writing a novel is that it cannot bore the reader, it has to be interesting.

Don’t start out too big with your novel, but rather look for a story that is small but means something to you.  Don’t reject ideas that wouldn’t lead anywhere in your novel, write those ideas down and file them away. You never know that they might become part of your next novel.

I am going to debunk a little myth here: you don’t always have to write what you know. The person who wrote Memoirs of a Geisha wasn’t a geisha, he was a man and he learned about the lives of geisha through research.

Okay, here is your assignment for this post.

• Pick your characters, because they are harder to choose then the actual story.

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