I bookmarked this post to return to after finishing my novel research. Extremely helpful! I also found it helpful to put the seven-point structure into ChatGPT and ask it to break down novels similar to mine into that structure. This really helped me visualize it -- I read these books as part of the research, but this helped put it together. https://chatgpt.com/share/6806c7ee-c340-800d-8c53-6557d252b0ec
Thanks, Nat, for breaking down your system so well for us. I found it enlightening. When you talked about scenes I remembered that I recently started to see the seams in some of the stories I read, so to speak, meaning that I got a sense of how the author might have constructed this scene. It is much less daunting to see a book as a collection of connected scenes, because, as you say, a scene often is not much more than the length a very polished and fleshed out blog post. Morgan Housel talked about this in his interview with David Perell on the How I Write podcast. He thought that book wrtiting meant doing long, elaborate chapters but it lead to him completely losing his voice. When he started writing chapters like blog posts, his voice came back.
Well done! Very useful guideposts. Thanks for putting these out there for all us starving, soon to be well-fed writers.
You’re welcome Roman! Glad it was useful
I bookmarked this post to return to after finishing my novel research. Extremely helpful! I also found it helpful to put the seven-point structure into ChatGPT and ask it to break down novels similar to mine into that structure. This really helped me visualize it -- I read these books as part of the research, but this helped put it together. https://chatgpt.com/share/6806c7ee-c340-800d-8c53-6557d252b0ec
Thanks, Nat, for breaking down your system so well for us. I found it enlightening. When you talked about scenes I remembered that I recently started to see the seams in some of the stories I read, so to speak, meaning that I got a sense of how the author might have constructed this scene. It is much less daunting to see a book as a collection of connected scenes, because, as you say, a scene often is not much more than the length a very polished and fleshed out blog post. Morgan Housel talked about this in his interview with David Perell on the How I Write podcast. He thought that book wrtiting meant doing long, elaborate chapters but it lead to him completely losing his voice. When he started writing chapters like blog posts, his voice came back.