Planning a Book? The Final Stages

So we have now all our structure in place, but we still need the final little pieces to drop into place.

This is where i am going to leave behind my guideline example and just concentrate on telling you my tips for the final stages of your preparation. I must stress again that i am not a professional and therefore these tips are just that tips and nothing else. If they help you however i will be extremely happy and therefore if they help please send us a message or comment about how it has helped you and why.

however i missed an important aspect Target market. This will determine the type of language you use in you story. If it is for children the language should be simple and easy, if it is for adults the language can be more complex. Also for children there should not be too many twists and turns for it will be hard to follow. Twists and turns should be reserved for teenage books upwards.

Now that is out of the way lets start on you final bits.

Now we have our story genres,topic, main character, and of course settings, time frames, target market but what we don’t have is characters.

Do remember to keep these in line with the story and your main character also. You can do as many characters as you like, for my book i wrote i think i made 25 characters and only used 13 of them, i created more for the book but the unused characters have featured in other works, so even if they are not used here they need not be wasted. A small description would suffice and of course there relationship to the main character or if they are not related then their relation to the story.

You will here want to think about location, and the type of story you are after, this will help characters jump out of your imagination on to the page more easily. 

YOur next thing once you have all your characters made up is to do a plan.

A plan will depict all that may happen in a chapter for instance: 

Chapter one: the main character is introduced and we meet his friends they set off on an adventure.

You would of course fit your own beginning in there but the idea is to set out so possible events for each chapter and here you may want to think about chapter length, dont do short chapters f the events are going to take much explaining for it may not work. Remember you can always change not only the events you are writing down but the length of chapters and what happens.

When i did my story i changed the format of my chapters quite a lot they simply fell out of favor from other chapters that felt better connected with what i was trying to write.

Though you should at this point not be too descriptive in what you write the basics are just fine.

When you start writing you will flesh the ideas out so to speak.

At this point all your notes you have made will come in handy for they will contain plot ideas and many other things you may want to see where you think characters should be introduced and how, also how characters may die and for that when they may die. It may not be  a good idea to kill the main character off at all ( bummer for sequels you see). 

After you have planned till the end and have everything together you are ready to start your book.

Remember you can always change something if you are not happy with the plans but just make sure it will still fit with the rest of the story if not change something else until it does. Most of all do not feel pressured to finish a book planning is the most vital part of any novel and i don’t need to be professional to know that.

So i hope these plans helped and i hope you have all the tools ready to make a masterpiece and i hope the tips i have given you will help along that path.

Remember this though: All plans are subject to change and change them you will, but remember it is ok to change the plans and to change what you wish to write, it is your work and no one elses.

Good luck and god bless!