You want to know your characters and what happens to them from beginning to end. If you’re an Outliner, you prefer to map out everything before you start writing your novel. Step 2: Determine whether you’re an Outliner or a Pantser. Only that kind of an idea will inspire you to write the novel you’ve always dreamed of. It must capture YOU so completely you can’t get it out of your head. Take whatever time you need to prioritize your story ideas and choose the one you would most want to read - the one about which you’re most passionate and which would keep you eagerly returning to the keyboard every day. I based my first novel, Margo, on this idea: A judge tries a man for a murder the judge committed. Powerful enough to hold the reader all the way?Ĭome up with a story laden with conflict - the engine that will drive your plot.Big enough to warrant 75,000 to 100,000 words?.Intensify your main character’s problems.Engage the theater of the reader’s mind.Start in medias res (in the midst of things).Create an unforgettable main character.Determine whether you’re an Outliner or a Pantser.I hope you enjoy it and can apply it to your own writing! This guide shows you how to write a novel (based on the process I use to write mine). Of course this goes without saying, but first you must finish a novel manuscript. If other writers enjoy such things, why can’t you? Imagine letters from readers telling you your novel changed their lives, gave them a new perspective, renewed hope. Or, best of all, your name on the cover of a newly published book - does that excite you? Better yet, imagine a finished manuscript. And that’s what I reveal to you in this definitive guide. I use a repeatable novel-writing plan - one that helps me smash through those obstacles. You may be surprised that even after writing 200 books (two-thirds of those novels) over the last 45+ years, including several New York Times bestsellers (most notably the Left Behind Series), I face those same problems every time. You ran out of ideas and had no clue what to do next.You feared your writing wasn’t good enough.Maybe you’ve tried before, only to get a few, or several, pages in and lose steam because: It’s bizarre and funny, but also surprisingly prescient.You’ve always wanted to write a novel. The Coen brothers also revel in the over-the-topness of the film by having the star-studded cast act like completely idiots (the film is worth watching to see Brad Pitt dancing around as a buffoonish fitness freak). The movie looks at how something completely pointless (the worthless data stolen from Cox’s computer contains a draft of his pretentious memoirs) can spiral out of control when the parties don’t realize what information they have or don’t have. The plot of Burn After Reading is overly complicated, but that’s the point. Soon bodies are falling, and the CIA tries to handle the affair despite being completely confused about what is actually going on. In his spare time, he’s building a sex machine in his basement. Marshall having a joyless affair with Kate Cox while being spied on by his own wife who is also having an affair. Meanwhile, George Clooney plays a horndog U.S. Chad and Linda try to blackmail Cox to pay for Linda’s cosmetic surgery, and when Cox refuses, they try to sell the data to the Russians. The files were left there by Cox’s wife, Kate Cox (Tilda Swinton), who copied his computer data as leverage in a divorce. This one of the the funniest-if not the funniest-Coen brothers films, and its plot about bumbling CIA agents, stolen information, and Russian spies could hardly be more fitting for the present moment.īurn After Reading revolves around two gym employees-Brad Pitt as hyperactive jock Chad Feldheimer and Frances McDormand as cosmetic-surgery-obsessed Linda Litzke-finding ex-CIA agent Osborne Cox’s (John Malkovich) files in a locker at Hardbodies Gym. But on a recent desperate scan through Netflix for something to watch, I decided to give Burn After Reading another try and my opinion did a complete 180. As a huge Coen brothers fan myself, I left the theater with a shrug at the time. Coming after the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning noir No Country for Old Men and their Oscar-nominated quiet dramady A Serious Man, Burn After Reading’s wacky spy satire slipped through the cracks with tepid reviews and few accolades.
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