Her principles make a lot of sense, though. I wish I could say I’ve actually followed the advice in Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up in my own housekeeping. Follow Marie Kondo’s Rules of Tidying Up to Declutter that Novel When writers say they can’t write a synopsis because they have four protagonists, I know the problem isn’t the synopsis, it’s the novel. There can be lots of secondary characters and secondary arcs, but your main story has to be about one thing. We don’t have to solve all the worlds’ problems in one book.Ī novel needs to be about one person. We need to remind ourselves there will be more novels.
Don’t Try to Write About Life, The Universe and Everything.įor one thing, it’s been done. I was cramming way too much into one book. When it got to 300,000 pages, I realized I had a problem. I also tried to make each woman a symbol of something grand and wanted the novel to be about life, the universe, and everything.
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I was just a beginner, and I had no idea how to tie the stories together with one story arc. Books like Ruth Harris’s million-selling blockbuster “ Modern Women.”īut I was no Ruth Harris. It was a saga about 4 interconnected women, a type of women’s fiction that was super popular at the time. I do understand the urge to throw everything into your first novel. At least in their present form.ĭo a little mourning and then get ready to tidy up. Lots of practice novels were tossed onto Amazon in the heat of the Kindle Revolution that should never have seen the light of day. If you’ve self-published one of these novels and only have a handful of reviews and sales, I’d suggest unpublishing and starting over. The authors have tried to stuff way too much information into a poor little title.
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And in the background is a mushroom cloud with the image of a bat in the smoke.Īll the themes of the book are right there on the cover! Plus a bat, because bats are cool. In it are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Botticelli’s Venus, and The Beatles from the Sergeant Pepper album. Maybe the book’s cover shows a drawing of Noah’s Ark. So if you’re having trouble finding a publisher or audience for your book, maybe it needs some of Marie Kondo’s advice. Her principles can be applied to writing as well as housekeeping. It’s time for them to Marie Kondo their work.įor anybody who doesn’t pay attention to popular culture, Marie Kondo is a superstar organizing consultant and author with her own show on Netflix. The authors are hoarding too many characters, themes and messages. It’s usually right there in the title or on the cover (if the cover is homemade.) In a lot of their work, I see the same problem. Some are furious at the world for not loving their stuff.
Recently I’ve seen sad posts by a number of new writers who are having trouble marketing a self-published debut novel, or are discouraged by numerous rejections.
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