What Is The Novel ArcheType?

You see it here in the Star Novel Writing diagram by writer and Jungian Psychologist SKW for short. Design your novel following this archetypal of storytelling and you will be well on your way to planning and writing a professional novel. 

What is important to realize is that a fundamental archetypal pattern underlies all story-telling, novels and screen plays.

Authors do not always use all of these key elements but readers and viewers unconsciously look for them.

Study this Star Novel Writing Diagram

See for yourself the basic elements and whether, or not, you fulfill them in planning the structure of how you are going to write your novel.

Test Your Knowledge Of Storytelling 

If you want to test your knowledge of the Star Diagram then apply it to a favorite movie or novel that you are especially moved by.

Write Star Storytelling Paragraphs 

For each concept in the diagram write a paragraph using your favorite example as the illustration for this concept. You will then be in a learning process to learn the Star Schema for Writing A Novel.

For more thorough understanding, apply the diagram four times: to two of your favorite movies by getting a copy of their final screen play version, and two times to two favorite novels of yours.

If you want to learn a genre well enough to write in it, apply the Star Diagram to the most popular novels of that genre.

All this self-learning then will alter your creative understanding so that now you may be able to plan out a writing plan for a novel of your own. This can be quite a learning success, can't it?

Use Writing Software To Plan Out Your Novel 

You can use the diagram as a basis of making a mind map for planning out your novel. I use FreeMind for diagramming, but there are a number of programs out there. I use OmniOutliner sometimes. Currently I am trying out a note system for keeping good track of your info bits and organizing them into collections. This is called EverNote.

What is developing quickly on the Web in 2008 is organizing software for writing, thinking and all kinds of projects. Writing a novel is a big, big, organizing information and craft tools project. Organizing software is highly recommended.

What Novel Writing Software Lacks 

What these software programs lack however is the craft knowledge in a given subject field.

The Star Novel Writing Points Diagram is novel writing craft knowledge that directs how you the end user, the writer, can use novel writing software. Neat?

Desire - So you want to write a novel? More power to you! Many beginning to advanced writers have always wanted to write since childhood. Maybe you are one of these?

The Basic Formula For Being A Successful Writer

Let's suggest a basic formula for becoming a successful writer.

1. Learn and use well novel writing craft and tools
2. Develop your storytelling imagination by using it, not just for writing, but every day for relating to people, expressing yourself, and telling others what you are about.
3. Write something every day
4. Have a story project, like a novel, memoir or screenplay ongoing in your life

We can't tell you if you have the talent to be a successful novel or screen writer.

The Difference Between Success Or Failure As A Writer

We can say absolutely that to make the difference between SUCCESS OR FAILURE you have to learn your writing craft. Now where and how are you going to learn that?

Read novels, study movies and screen plays, write out stories as best you can, study writing craft books. Beware of creative writing classes. Beware of most writing software, which will do more to lead you off the track rather than on it.

Learn Craft!

This is what we emphasize here. If you want to be a serious writer there is no "paint by numbers" easy way promised by books and software, New Novelist being one example.

Learn your craft! Sit down and plan out your novel or screen play using a lot of tools and novel writing tips to develop your novel's story ahead of time.

Seek Out The Best Collections Of Writing Craft Tools

Look around for the best collections of writing tips and tools, plan out your novel or screen play, then write and rewrite your imaginative story into a novel. This is the essence as we understand it here.

What does writing a novel mean?

It means hard work. There is no easy way, and I am intelligent enough to figure out things. I am a published writer of non-fiction and now am spending eight years so far getting my big novel out, title still secret!

I have recently composed two memoirs. To learn to use thousands of writing craft tools has taken me years to discover. I simply don't believe fast-sell people like those of the widely advertized New Novelist software who say using their system makes it easy to write a novel.

Yes, write a book or novel, but is it any good? Does it get published and sell thousands of copies? No success there. Don't waste your money on anyone or any software that wants to sell you something that makes things easy.

Sure, it's easy to write an email, but really difficult to write a novel that sells.

Let's stick to novel writing software that works! for our planning stage for writing a novel.

Why do we writers need novel writing software?

In today's world we must do research and planning to develop any product, from books to electric toothbrushes, so the answer is obvious. All writers of fiction and non-fiction need powerful computers and powerful software to effectively plan out and write a good selling novel or screen play.

- to write a novel you do research of the times, the places, the kinds of culture, the technology of the day, the character roles of persons of the time, the current state of novel writing art ... You do research and for that you best do it by computer.

- to write a novel you also need a good writing enviroment, and that means a computer and good writing software as well. You want to carefully plan your novel, stage by stage, scene by scene, chapter by chapter, don't you. Then search out and try out the best novel writing software you can find. This is what I have done and I give the results here, as well as update my information from time to time. Join our mailing list for updates, of course.

What is writing software?

Writing software is not just a word processor that gives you paragraphs formatting and a spell checker. Writing software is computer software that enhances to the best extent possible your ability to write non-fiction and fiction books. The keyword here is thata computer's software should organize your information flawlessly.

I have used over forty software applications, about twenty of that I would recommend to anyone. The faults of certain writer's software is the bugs. They crash when given too much to do. Thus some writing software is to simply in its functions to really help you. They are afraid of bugs if they make really functional software. So look for software that gives you fairly complete organizing power in planning and writing out your novel or screen play.