“The 100% Book Writing Solution! --An Expert's How to Write a Book Step-by-Step Guide”
Hold on to your book-writing hat, you're about to discover writing information you've never seen anywhere else and your success as an author is about to blaze!
by Steve Manning
This may well be the most important article you read about writing your book. Today I'm going to give away the store. Today you're going to get information that could revolutionize the way you write your book. So let's get started…
For the longest time, I thought that particular genres of books had particular strategies or formulas for the plot. That evolved to the recognition that authors have particular strategies or formulas for their plots. And then the revelation that the strategies were algorithms that appeared as scenes within a book.
And recently this has all culminated in a unifying theory of plot development that you can use right away to produce an outstanding book. It is both the author and the book that produce a unique algorithm. And this algorithm is displayed as scenes within the book.
Now all this may sound too sophisticated and detailed to be useful to many people, but the fact is what you're getting to is the essence of the story. And you can reproduce the story over and over again simply by following the algorithm in the book.
Here's how you do it. Find a best-selling book in your genre. You want it to be a best selling book because this will give you a best-selling plot. Start reading the book and as you read, note the scenes that appear in the book. Here's your objective. You want to write single sentences that describes the entire scene.
This scene it may be several pages long. You still want to use only one sentence of 12 to 20 words, that describes the scene. That means you must eliminate as much detail as possible. You want to write down just the essence of the scene. Just what happens. Not where it happens, not the décor, not even the characters names.
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Note also the number of pages taken by the scene. Believe it or not, your entire book will comprise only 50 to 60 scenes.
Once you've done this and if you've been very strict about writing just the bare minimum, you'll have the algorithm for this book.
I'm going to give you an example of exactly what I mean. The algorithm that you are about to read is for a very popular mystery book. I'm not going to tell you the title, nor the author's name. And from the algorithm, you will be hard pressed to do either. That's the essence of writing an excellent algorithm for a book. Anyone should be able to read the algorithm, know exactly what happens in the book, but have no idea of which book it is or who the author is. Here's an example of about 1/3 of a book:
Scene 1: 8 pages
Murder takes places, lots of color and detail. No explanation of why the murder takes place. It's almost as if we walked into the middle of a story.
Scene 2: 9-19=10 pages, detective arrives on the scene. Preliminary investigation, a little about the detective. A first lead is offered and where to go to get it. Lots of detail and color.
Scene 3: 20-31=11 pages, two common people, witnesses, are interviewed and only the barest of information is given. The same stuff that the reader knows from reading the book up until that point. But the detective does get some leads on other witnesses that he'll interview next.
Scene 4: 32-43=11 pages, detective talks with his wife. We see some of his home life and they discuss the case so far and what is actually known. There's an element of racism in the family.
Scene 5: 43-50=7 pages, a brief interview with some more witnesses who give him very limited information about the murder.
Scene 6: 50-54=4 pages, back at the station we're introduced to three characters, a subordinate, a peer and a superior. They're trying to get the victim's name and who can help them.
Scene 7: 54-58=4 pages, detective shows the photo of the deadman to a subordinate who says he'll show it around to a few of the deadman's friends. Throughout the opening, there has been a feeling of prejudice toward the deadman.
Scene 8: 58-63=5 pages, detective wants to find out more about the people who surrounded the deadman while he was alive. Where they came from what they did, where they lived. Asks a colleague to do the legwork.
Scene 9: 63-66=3 pages, as he knew, the victim was a street sales person of fake fashion bags. But the system just arrests them over and over again chopping up most of the fake bags.
Scene 10: 66-79=13 pages, detective looks over the files and gets more information about the people surrouding the victim and then calls a local merchant contact who implies organized crime. Detective calls person in crime he is blackmailing to find out.
Scene 11: 80-84=5 pages, detective goes home only to find that the family members are still upset about the racial overtones comment
Scene 12: 84-92=8 pages, detective goes to retired priest who in ministers to the kind of people the victim was. Exposition on the priest and the situation.
Notice how brief the descriptions of the scenes are. Yes, I broke my own rule by using two or three sentences to describe each scene. Nevertheless, I think you get the idea. Note the complete absence of setting, character development, or anything else that would let the reader in on the title or the author.
We are a third of the way through the book, and there are twelve scenes that have taken place. We even know the number of pages in each scene. Each page has 300 words, so that gives us even more writing information
You could take this algorithm and put it in any city in the world. You could make the detective any nationality or perhaps an android, male or female, old or young. You might even put it in the animal kingdom, for a children's book.
It's an algorithm that has no limitations. You know exactly how your manuscript will start, how it will continue, and how it will end as well. With that kind of information by your side, it's just a matter of putting the words down, letting your imagination wander, and writing your book faster than you ever thought possible.
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