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6 Tips for Mapping a Fictional World Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 3 “World Building” – Section 2 “Maps” (Previous Tutorial)             (Next Tutorial)  “I wisely started with a map, and made the story fit (generally with meticulous care for distances). The other way about lands one in confusions and impossibilities, and in any case it is weary work to compose a map from a story.” - J.R.R. Tolkien If you've ever read or written a story that seemed unintentionally ethereal—where the descriptions did not paint a vivid picture of the setting but instead a more vague dreamscape that t

8 Ideas for Optimizing Your Writing Workspace Anybody Can Write a Novel Version 2.0 Chapter 1 “Beginning to Write” – Section 4 “Your Workspace” (Previous Tutorial)              (Next Tutorial)                                                                       "My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents" -Chuck Berry In the same spirit of making yourself more self-motivated to write and warding off writer's block, a few of my readers have asked about optimizing your writing workspace for the utmost productivity. This presents something

5 Tips For Choosing what Type of Story to Write Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 2 World-building – Section 1 "Story Types" (Previous Tutorial)              (Next Tutorial) “The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration.” -Thomas Edison When crafting a novel, the first thing you need to know is what type of story you are telling. Most writers begin with ideas on the general themes and events that will take place; but eventually you will want to refine this general idea into s