Resolved.
How does one begin an undertaking as large as a novel? The question looms over a new year and a new resolution.
Step 1: ascribe the various aspects of yourself to various characters. perform the self-satisfying work of splintering the complexities of what a stranger once diagnosed as “a deeply-conflicted personality” into understandable phrases—people complicated enough to be believable, simple enough to understand.
Step 2: identify the central conflict.
Step 3: break the central conflict into many conflicts, alliances, and divergences.
Step 4: find a notebook.
Step 5: begin writing.
Step 1: ascribe the various aspects of yourself to various characters. perform the self-satisfying work of splintering the complexities of what a stranger once diagnosed as “a deeply-conflicted personality” into understandable phrases—people complicated enough to be believable, simple enough to understand.
Step 2: identify the central conflict.
Step 3: break the central conflict into many conflicts, alliances, and divergences.
Step 4: find a notebook.
Step 5: begin writing.
Here’s to a new year and a new endeavor.
