Gathering Of Dedicated Scribblers discussion

Before you begin eagerly posting links to your work asking for others to review your chapters, lets take a look at the weeks broken down.

Week 1 - create a concept for your original novel, write up a pitch document, also create a Logline and a Dramatic Question.

Week 2 - create profiles for your major characters and write up an outline for the first chapter

Week 3 - begin writing chapter one. Now, most novels are written in third person past tense. Keep each paragraph to three or four sentences. It should be a single thought, action or sequence. Longer paragraphs are more difficult to read. Each line of dialog must be it's own paragraph.

week 4 - outline chapter 2 and write chapter 2.

1st create your working title, this might change as you continue to write, something might happen that sparks an awesome idea.

Now, in the coursera program you've pitched 3 ideas and hopefully you got some feedback as to what idea might be more successful. Don't forget to keep those other 2 ideas saved, in fact make titles for them as well. Then whenever you get stuck or think of a good idea that would have worked for one of the other thoughts, you can always go and add a bullet to it.

Now you have your pitch. This is what my story is about. We need to flush this out a bit more. You're story will flow a lot easier if you have a basic outline of what you wanted to happen. Sketch out the beginning, the middle and the end. This might help you out a bit https://www.creativindie.com/plotdot/

Your beginning needs to catch the readers attention. Something happens that sets the story into motion. You're middle is the turning point for your character. He now knows he is Hercules and is going to blah blah blah. Onward! As you have thought of a beginning, you should also thought of your ending. In fact, if you can write your ending next, it gives you both points A&B, now we just need to fill it in.

Joseph Campbell wrote a book titled The Hero With a Thousand Faces. The book contains hundreds of examples of stories from a wide range of mythology, including those from Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Native American, and Greek (and countless other) canons. This might also help you with how to structure your story line.

Now if you can visualize, how your story starts and ends, the rest of it just needs a basic outline. List a couple good ideas that you might want your character to go through or things that will happen as your story progress. Don't worry about how many chapters there are. This will come automatically.