{"id":9690,"date":"2015-05-17T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9690"},"modified":"2015-05-17T06:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T13:30:39","slug":"how-to-write-a-novel-without-going-insane-from-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-write-a-novel-without-going-insane-from-frustration\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Write A Novel Without Going Insane From Frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This special &#8220;Ben Settle Show&#8221; podcast episode reveals my advice to an aspiring novelist on how to get started writing a novel, and some tricks for making it go smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, we rap about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>An unusual way to use the number 7 to plot your novels (learned from the book &#8220;A Clockwork Orange&#8221;).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The exact &#8220;templates&#8221; I use while structuring my stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How my novel &#8220;Zombie Cop&#8221; was influenced by the TV show &#8220;24&#8221;. (And how to use your favorite TV shows to pace your novels in a way people like to read.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Dean Koontz&#8217;s secret to having your readers&#8217; imaginations do most of the &#8220;heavy lifting&#8221; for you while writing your novels. (This one tip alone made it 10x&#8217;s easier to begin writing and finish my novels.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to bang out your first draft &#8212; fast. (I learned this from studying comic book artists, and it took a lot of the pressure off.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The exact time you should to stop writing to create the best, most interesting stories. (This advice is just as important for writing emails, too.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The two best screen writers to study to learn dialogue. (All these guys&#8217; movies and TV shows have great examples of how to write dialogue.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An easy and simple way to make almost any character (even dull and boring characters) more interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Two authors to study that are masters at writing in the first person. (If&#8217;n you want to write in the first person, of course.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Why one of my favorite novels has no real plot. (And the lessons you can learn from it for your own novels.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>My favorite resources for learning how to write fiction.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And so on, and so forth&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even if you have no desire to write fiction, a lot of this can be used in your emails, ads, and other marketing pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Come get your writing love here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettleShow.com\/antipreneur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.BenSettleShow.com\/antipreneur<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This special &#8220;Ben Settle Show&#8221; podcast episode reveals my advice to an aspiring novelist on how to get started writing a novel, and some tricks for making it go smoothly. Specifically, we rap about: An unusual way to use the number 7 to plot your novels (learned from the book &#8220;A Clockwork Orange&#8221;). The exact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}