How to Start Writing a Fiction Book with Kim Here

About this video

Fiction author Katie Reed, known as Kim Here on YouTube, gives first steps for someone starting a fiction book. Her biggest advice for any creative endeavour is to just start rather than getting caught up in planning — but for fiction, starting means making an outline of the complete story, beginning, middle, and end. An outline acts as a map: without knowing what is going on, writers get lost, hit writer’s block, lose motivation, and quit. At the same time, she warns not to get stuck in the outline, or you will never truly start. On book length, she says it depends on knowing your audience: start with yourself and what length you like to read, and do market research in your genre — check how long the popular, well-rated books are and read reviews for comments that a book was too long or readers wanted more. A first draft will likely end up longer or shorter than intended, which can be fixed in revising and editing, so do not panic. You can follow what is working or deliberately do the opposite as a fresh angle, reverse-engineering why successful books succeed.

Key takeaways

• Just start — do not get caught up in endless planning before writing.
• For fiction, starting means outlining the complete story — beginning, middle, and end — as a map so you do not get lost.
• Without an outline, writers tend to get writer’s block, lose motivation, and quit when the writing gets hard.
• Do not get stuck in the outline either; make it, then actually start writing.
• Judge length from your audience and genre: start with what you like to read, research popular well-reviewed books and their reviews, and fix length in revision rather than panicking.

Episode details: published April 13, 2018 · 5:00 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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