Post by account_disabled on Jan 1, 2024 7:35:21 GMT
I mentioned prewriting in the post on the creative process of writing . I had read about it on the Anima di carta blog and so in the end I wanted to delve deeper into the discussion. Many of my stories ended up abandoned in the past because the prewriting phase was missing. When I started writing a fantasy novel, I remember, I didn't plan anything, I just took it and wrote. After 2 chapters the story is dead. On the second attempt, however, I planned about fifty chapters, but without using the various methods of prewriting at all, but only writing the plots without having anything clear in mind. That novel also died in the bud. Now I'm working more slowly and maniacally, but I see great improvements, because I can have the whole story under control.
Here I list 10 methods that we can use in the prewriting phase , all together in a novel or even just those that are most convenient for us on a case-by-case basis. The brainstorming Brainstorming (or brain storm) is a creativity technique that many are familiar with . It is usually used in companies to find the solution to a problem. Various people come Special Data together and each one, freewheeling, comes up with their own idea. I think you can also do it yourself, after all I've done it several times. Having to sort out the plot of my science fiction novel, I started jotting down ideas after ideas until I found the one that stood out more than the others. Solitary brainstorming can pay off. Mind maps So far I have used the mind mapping method to write blog articles , never in fiction. But the principle is the same. It involves defining a macrotopic, therefore the entire plot or part of it, and then generating nearby topics.
Take a sheet of paper, write down your plot in one sentence and then start branching out your mental map. For each branch, others will arise. The technique of journalism or the 5Ws This is a journalistic technique, but it is also used in copywriting . I also used this technique for my science fiction novel. In reality, it is the 5W+1H rule : Who : who committed the crime What : what happened When : when the event happened Where : where it happened Why : why that event happened How : how the event happened In my opinion, this technique works especially at the beginning, when we only have a vague idea of our story and we need to understand how to transform it into a plot. Then these 6 questions are useful to us, because they serve to focus on the heart of the story. The graphic organization of ideas More than once I have happened to see authors filling their room with slips of paper with ideas about their story jotted down.
Here I list 10 methods that we can use in the prewriting phase , all together in a novel or even just those that are most convenient for us on a case-by-case basis. The brainstorming Brainstorming (or brain storm) is a creativity technique that many are familiar with . It is usually used in companies to find the solution to a problem. Various people come Special Data together and each one, freewheeling, comes up with their own idea. I think you can also do it yourself, after all I've done it several times. Having to sort out the plot of my science fiction novel, I started jotting down ideas after ideas until I found the one that stood out more than the others. Solitary brainstorming can pay off. Mind maps So far I have used the mind mapping method to write blog articles , never in fiction. But the principle is the same. It involves defining a macrotopic, therefore the entire plot or part of it, and then generating nearby topics.
Take a sheet of paper, write down your plot in one sentence and then start branching out your mental map. For each branch, others will arise. The technique of journalism or the 5Ws This is a journalistic technique, but it is also used in copywriting . I also used this technique for my science fiction novel. In reality, it is the 5W+1H rule : Who : who committed the crime What : what happened When : when the event happened Where : where it happened Why : why that event happened How : how the event happened In my opinion, this technique works especially at the beginning, when we only have a vague idea of our story and we need to understand how to transform it into a plot. Then these 6 questions are useful to us, because they serve to focus on the heart of the story. The graphic organization of ideas More than once I have happened to see authors filling their room with slips of paper with ideas about their story jotted down.