Best-selling author talks about how to write a novel faster

Many people have experienced getting stuck and stagnating when writing, or struggling with areas that take time. Laura Childs, a best-selling mystery author, shares her tips for writing novels quickly.

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Writing requires the hard work of constantly expanding your imagination and searching for words, as well as coming up with great ideas. ``This whole process is highly stressful and tiring, like burning both ends of a candle that burns out quickly,'' says Childs, who suggests techniques that can make the process more efficient.

The first technique that Mr. Childs cites is to 'understand the overview.' Some writers don't need an overall plot or chapter-by-chapter outline, but for Childs, an outline speeds up the thought process and helps create a roadmap for how the story progresses. They said they would give it to me.

In fact, when Mr. Childs wrote a mystery called `` Murder in the Tea Leaves ,'' he wrote about the incident that begins the story, the characters that appear in each scene, the turning point in the plot, the next incident, and the main character. Apparently, he started by mapping out the parts where he felt deeply depressed and the ending on a large piece of paper. When writing, Mr. Childs says that he can feel the story evolving by filling in more details with the outline he created in advance.

Childs also points out that ``preliminary research'' is important when creating an outline. For example, in the case of a mystery, there is information necessary to write a detailed story, such as details about the incident, scientific knowledge related to the investigation, and interviews with the stage you are imagining. If you look up this information every time you need it while writing, you will be wasting your time away from writing, so Mr. Childs recommends looking up the information you will definitely need in advance. I am.

The second writing technique that Mr. Childs mentions is ``Once you start writing, don't stop and write straight.'' If you don't know the exact word or supplementary explanation, you can tentatively enter 'x,' or even if the expression doesn't feel right, you don't stop and look it up; you just keep going until the end of the chapter. The trick to speeding up the process is to ``separate writing from adding information'' by going back and proofreading the chapter once it has been written and adding information to the parts that were marked as ``x''.

Lastly, Mr. Childs states that the most important thing to do is, ``Just read a lot of books.'' By reading a lot, you will begin to pick up on techniques that other authors use. By honing your writing style with the knowledge and techniques you've gathered, you'll be able to write faster and smarter. To achieve this, it is important not only to read a book, but also to analyze why the book is interesting and what the author intended when writing it.