Ideas
Every novel begins before the first sentence is written. It begins with a reason, a question, an image, a character, a plot or an idea and once it takes hold in your brain, you just have to write.
Explore Ideas
Why are you writing?
Before deciding what to write, think about why you want to write it at all.
Finding your idea
Where ideas come from, and how to recognise one worth following.
What are you writing?
Novel, memoir, autobiography or something else entirely?
Developing an idea
Taking the first spark and discovering what else might be hiding inside it.
Is this idea worth a novel?
How to tell whether an idea has enough in it to sustain an entire book.
Planning Your Writing
What do you need to get this written?