How Does Someone Write a Book: Part 2

I suppose the truth is no one is going to tell you how to write a novel but people can give you ideas, hints and thoughts. Start filling your walls with things of your life. Each one holds a memory, a time in your life where you did something and every time you look at it you think of that moment and the people associated with it. You create a wall of stories. 

Start a journal if you haven't already, sometimes the best stories are your own.

Why should you listen to me? No reason. Except I'm trying to learn too. 

Below are some ways that other people begin writing:

The Snowflake Method. If you're just starting here is a good place to start with your ideas for you novel. They have these awesome exercises that are seriously so good and get your "creative juices" going.

Storyboarding is another idea that people use and is mostly used in the film industry but can also be used for novel writing. I like it. Although I'd personally be using post it notes on my whiteboard.

Someone's idea of plotting. It's pretty good and simple. I like it because it's got your key points and you can see the flow of it in most novels.

Buy a book like Little Red Writing Book or Bird by Bird and just indulge yourself in the words of their wisdom. (Hey they obviously wrote a book!)

Start a blog. Who cares if no one reads it! You're writing!

Lastly I would just say, look at your time management, is there anything that you do that you go
"Wow, I spend about 2 hours on that and really that's a waste of time, I could just spend 1 hour" to which you then realise that if you put an hour away a day for a year that 365 hours and you could become a master at something. Wow. Think about where you time is going...

Guardians of The Children

I watched The Rise of The Guardians movie and fell in love with the characters, the story, the plot and the whole wonder of it all. So much so that after watching the movie I said that I'd need to go again but this time with a notebook so I could note down all the amazing things. Gosh, wow. Full of so many treasures.

What I walked away with was a call to the people of the world to wake up and see that we need to take our place as guardians of the children. The people who are shooting, stealing, doing drugs aren't bad people, they are children we didn't reach - children we didn't protect.

In this movie the first person to die is the Sandman, nicknamed Sandy. He was the protector of dreams. Funny how a month before the movie came out the USA had hurricane Sandy and a month after that had shootings at Sandy hook - which consequently has put kids over the country in disarray thus stealing their confidence. We need to be guardians of this next generation so that when they grow up they too are well equipped to teach the next and maybe we'll see more of a change in our lands.

Half the world is children - what are you doing to protect them? Their dreams; their hopes; their wonder; their memories; their fun.

Lets change this world. Lets bring in stories that encourage and lift up the children to be all that they were meant to be so that us, as guardians of the children, when we are in trouble no it doesn't matter because we are indestructible as one.