Do you sometimes feel like a book is just too large of a product to ever finish? Does it seem like a very monumental task to get a novel written to completion? If you're looking for book writing help, I've put together a list of five common mistakes that many beginning writers make.
1. Procrastination is probably the most common problem writers have. A lot of people like to think of themselves as writers and even tell other people that they are planning to write a book, but yet when they sit down at the computer they end up checking e-mail and surfing websites and getting nothing at all done on their novel. They will also find themselves reading many how-to books about writing instead of actually sitting down and getting to work on their book.
2. Failure to write an outline. For some reason a lot of people are scared of the word "outline" and so they avoid it altogether. This is a mistake because what will happen usually is you will began writing Chapter 1 and go along swimmingly until about Chapter 9 or 10 when you realize you've totally painted yourself into a corner. At that point you realize that if you had had an outline you would have avoided a crucial mistake. What it usually leads to is having to do a lot of rewriting. It is at this point that a lot of people just give up. So don't look at an outline as something scary but rather as a helpful tool to help you avoid these costly errors. You don't even have to make it an official outline but rather just a couple of paragraphs more like a summary just so you know where you're going. Treated it like a road map.
3. Too much research. Oftentimes people think that they must become an absolute expert on their subject before they can write one word. But what happens is you get bogged down doing a lot of research and you never get your story written. So the best thing to do is just go ahead and write your novel and don't stop too much to do a lot of research. Rather, when you come to a part that you are not sure about and know you need to do some research, just put any old thing in there and stick a Post-it on that page or some other marker to let you know that you need to go back when you're done and do the research.
4. Getting bored halfway through. Here is a major pitfall so be sure to avoid it. About halfway through your project just about everybody goes through this and what happens is you just simply get bored. You start thinking about new projects you could start and think maybe you'll abandon this one for a while and work on something new. Don't do it. Carry on with your novel and get it written.
5. Being a perfectionist. This is another very common problem. Try to ignore your critical subconscious voice which will always tell you whatever you do is not perfect. Allow yourself to just write your book any old way and you can always go back later and fix everything.
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