Tuesday, January 20, 2015

First Novels Can Be Made Reality With A Humorous Adventure Autobiography

By Karyn Shields


For anyone who seeks to write the Great American Novel, many writers have a million ideas on how this can be achieved. Some work, such as making yourself write for at least fifteen minutes each day. However, if one wants to make generating their first book easy, they need a bizaare vacation, several pens, and a notebook in which to journal their experience and they will have the outline for their humorous adventure autobiography.

The truth is great works of literature do not happen on pure imagination. Staying safe and warm never gave anyone a Eureka moment, and this includes writers as well as philosophers or scientists. No author worth their merit did all of their best work while sitting comfortably in their home.

Establishing the best kind of trip to take can be a rewarding challenge for this newby writer. It has to be the sort of outing that will be intense and challenging, but still fun, funny, and memorable in a deep and profound way. It should be the experience of a lifetime, and change the writer so that he or she has a completely different perspective on life afterward.

In order to make it real and make it intense, it should be a trip where the author has little control over how events go down. Traveling with others on such a trip is recommended for the sake of safety, but if both or all are being challenged, it adds dimension to the story. It reminds readers that the point to life is to experience it, and allows them to relive that sort of wonder through the characters in the book.

Traveling to a part of the world where the culture is completely alien to what the writer is used to can also provide anyone with plenty to write about. A Westerner traveling to the East; China or India being the most obvious suggestions, is a solid idea. The trick to making such a trip worthwhile is avoiding any tourist destinations.

A great place to start might even be in the town where they live, but pretending to be a foreign tourist. Not only could that be a laugh riot to do and to read about, but it can certainly expand their perspectives on their own home town. It also provides new authors with good practice at talking to strangers without making them feel they are being interviewed.

World travel and train hopping may not be for everyone, but that does not mean that a trip away would not be helpful to the more cautious traveler. Not every experience is likely to generate a novel. The idea, however, is to get the writer out into society so they can experience more of the challenges themselves; then write about them.

Journal writing is great for some, but modern technology does provide writers with additional tools of the trade. Most cellular phones have audio and video recording capability, and a good portion of the trip can be recorded, allowing more details about the setting to be captured in words. Laptop computers with wifi allow the novelist to start writing their book while still in the middle of the experience.




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