Science Fiction Writers Workshop

First off, congratulations on making your W1S1 goals. It's not easy to perservere through that process, and that bodes well for your novel.

Most people seem to need to write 3 or 4 novels before they get one that really clicks. In my case, it was rewriting the same novel four times over a period of a dozen years. There's so much to manage at once in a novel: plot, worldbuilding, character relationships, tension, light and dark interludes. What I see, in general, is that we tend to spend too much time setting up the world and characters and too little time moving the story and developing tension. What finally worked best for me (my wife and me, actually) was to make certain that every single chapter moved the narrative forward, plot-wise and character-wise. It's surprisingly difficult to do this, but what it requires you to do is to create a story that is complex enough to justify a novel treatment, rather than padding out a smaller story with worldbuilding details. Worldbuilding can be fascinating to read, but narrative is what compels us.

For me, the key is to find an interesting way into the chapter, use the chapter to push the story (and characters) forward, and end on a promise for something more to come. This is not always (or even usually) a cliff hanger, but more a sense that, yes, we've resolved something here, but it's led to another problem, a new issue, a character dilemma.

As for goals, the main thing is to keep the words coming. Nanowrimo is really TOO compressed in my opinion. I did it once, and the result wasn't awful, but it was rushed. The same process over, say, three or four months seems about right, depending on how much writing time your life allows.

If you're looking for a few folks to hold each other accountable and brainstorm from time to time, I'm interested. I have a novel I'm working through at JukePop Serials and will need to stay on schedule with it. I won't have time to read and critique chapters, at least for the next six months, but I can be supportive. Drop me a line if you like at stephen.v.ramey@gmail.com when you're ready to get going on this novel of yours.

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