The Way to Begin

Ideas are easy words on paper are hard especially for beginners and new writers. The Way to Begin takes writers beyond How do I start? by providing a step-by-step path to confronting the blank page and actually writing a storys opening pages. These practical steps explain how to narrow and define story choices create characters and know character motivations - even for nonfiction projects - and reveals a method for overcoming a new writers greatest challenge: how to get from idea to actual opening words on paper. Author Mike Harkins also includes insights from his four-decade creative career sharing guidance on how to research managing expectations and how not to be overwhelmed by the magnitude of completing a first manuscript. Every storys elements are the same whether novel memoir narrative nonfiction or screenplay. The Way to Begins method practical steps and advice to new writers combine to get a story out of a writers head develop it and put words on paper or screen. It belongs on every writers how-to-write bookshelf.