Angela Booth's Writing Blog: Fiction: The easy way to let your subconscious help you to write your novel

Books: Write Fiction

Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.
Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.
Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.

Improvs will help you to get started on a novel. You don’t need a plot, characters or setting.

Here's how:

*** First thing in the morning, for seven days, sit down and write an improv. Spend ten minutes on this, no longer. You can choose any three words which spring to mind to get you started, or you can make random choices by opening a dictionary and putting your fingertip on the page, and using the words you land on.

***Leave the material for at least a week, two weeks if possible. At the end of that time, read the material through, and choose one section to use as the beginning of your novel.

This is a fascinating process. Try it. :-)

Re improvs. An improv is a fun writing exercise. I like to choose three words at random, either nouns, adjectives or verbs, and use them as a kickoff for a free-write of around 100 to 200 words.

Here's an improv:

Write 100 words using these three words: Possess, Luck, Bitter.

Choose three words from that, then write another 100 words including those three words.

Keep going, if you like, and pick another three words from your improv.