Snowflake Method Step 1
Here we are at the beginning of the journey. But what is a beginning? Even if you think you are at the very beginning, starting with a blank page, that probably isn’t the case. You are full of experiences and ideas and all the books and TV shows and movies and everything else that you have consumed.
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For those who don’t have an idea in mind, you might want to go to the NaNoWriMo website and look at their week 1 exercise around generating an idea.
Snowflake Step 1: Your Novel in a Single Sentence
Recommended time: 1 hour
Write a single sentence description of your novel. Keep it as short as you can. No character names.
Tip: Ingarmanson recommends reading the one line blurbs on the New York Times bestseller list.
This is the one step I had already completed before I thought to make this a series on this website. Its harder than it sounds. I did need a full hour, as I revised it quite a few times. I also needed to limit it to an hour or I could have kept revising it forever. And since then I’ve already thought of changes to it.
This is also the one step I am going to share. At the moment it looks like this:
Returning home, an isolated woman discovers clues to a forgotten past and an enigmatic guru who might hold the key, if she can survive a bitter cultist, a shadowy organisation, the whisper only she hears and the ever rising sea.
