Ask the Author: Till Noever
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Till Noever
Write your heart out.
Ignore the usual stolid writing advice on the web or from books.
Dare to be non-linear and find your own process.
Daydream about your story when you're not actually writing or even before you have started. Start living it in your head before writing anything down, except maybe for some scribbled random ideas and notes.
Never write to an empty page if you don't know at least a paragraph of what you're wanting to write beforehand.
Write your first draft as if it was your only draft! The 'rewrite' thing comes later.
Don't be afraid of 'rolling edits'; meaning fixing stuff—typos, grammar, contextual elements—from yesterday before starting on today's part of your novel.
Love your characters!
Let your characters be PEOPLE—not concepts or mere embodied ideas!
Remember to make sure that every sex scene between protagonists should be a LOVE scene—even if they don't know it yet at this point in the tale—and that the scene actually takes the story forward.
Also, to write seriously steamy sex scenes without a single use of technical/biological or slang terms for the involved body parts. You wouldn't believe how hot and sexy an explicit sex scene can get without the usual trashy verbiage so many authors resort to. Ask yourself if you're writing love scenes or porn and adjust your language accordingly. Be imaginative and avoid the trope four-letter slang words starting with 'f' and 'c'. Replace slang nouns with action words evidencing the emotions involved.
Ignore the usual stolid writing advice on the web or from books.
Dare to be non-linear and find your own process.
Daydream about your story when you're not actually writing or even before you have started. Start living it in your head before writing anything down, except maybe for some scribbled random ideas and notes.
Never write to an empty page if you don't know at least a paragraph of what you're wanting to write beforehand.
Write your first draft as if it was your only draft! The 'rewrite' thing comes later.
Don't be afraid of 'rolling edits'; meaning fixing stuff—typos, grammar, contextual elements—from yesterday before starting on today's part of your novel.
Love your characters!
Let your characters be PEOPLE—not concepts or mere embodied ideas!
Remember to make sure that every sex scene between protagonists should be a LOVE scene—even if they don't know it yet at this point in the tale—and that the scene actually takes the story forward.
Also, to write seriously steamy sex scenes without a single use of technical/biological or slang terms for the involved body parts. You wouldn't believe how hot and sexy an explicit sex scene can get without the usual trashy verbiage so many authors resort to. Ask yourself if you're writing love scenes or porn and adjust your language accordingly. Be imaginative and avoid the trope four-letter slang words starting with 'f' and 'c'. Replace slang nouns with action words evidencing the emotions involved.
Till Noever
Lots!
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Till Noever
That's one of those open questions...
You can tell any damn story you want and say whatever pleases you and get whatever you need to get out of your system out of your system.
The best thing about doing it in novel form is that you can spin a yarn without having to adhere to constraints—like you'll find in screenplays, for example—on length, structure and genre or genre mix.
Also, you can get to know interesting people; that being your characters, who are, of course, only in your head; but that makes them even more interesting.
You can tell any damn story you want and say whatever pleases you and get whatever you need to get out of your system out of your system.
The best thing about doing it in novel form is that you can spin a yarn without having to adhere to constraints—like you'll find in screenplays, for example—on length, structure and genre or genre mix.
Also, you can get to know interesting people; that being your characters, who are, of course, only in your head; but that makes them even more interesting.
Till Noever
Can't say. I don't have writer's block as such.
However, every now and then I come to a point in a book where I've taken my non-linear approach to writing a bit too far; come to a point where I feel that the story has reached a resting point and needs a kick into the next phase. I usually do something that neither my characters nor I expected to happen—and making just that happen, and see where it leads. Usually works for me. Might not work for others though.
However, every now and then I come to a point in a book where I've taken my non-linear approach to writing a bit too far; come to a point where I feel that the story has reached a resting point and needs a kick into the next phase. I usually do something that neither my characters nor I expected to happen—and making just that happen, and see where it leads. Usually works for me. Might not work for others though.
Till Noever
Don't know, really.
Way I see it, you either need to do it or you might as well do something else. That's the only way I can think of that writing novels is a joy instead of 'work'. As for me, I've enjoyed writing very book I've written, and even occasionally enjoy re-reading them and so revisiting characters I've come to love.
Way I see it, you either need to do it or you might as well do something else. That's the only way I can think of that writing novels is a joy instead of 'work'. As for me, I've enjoyed writing very book I've written, and even occasionally enjoy re-reading them and so revisiting characters I've come to love.
Till Noever
"Heart Thieves":
Where did the idea come from? Don't know. Reading a whole bunch of Regency Romances and trying to get a feel for them maybe? Best way I know how to do that is by writing one.
Where did the idea come from? Don't know. Reading a whole bunch of Regency Romances and trying to get a feel for them maybe? Best way I know how to do that is by writing one.
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