Approaching Novel Writing With A Humorous Adventure Autobiography

By Karyn Shields


For anyone who seeks to write the Great American Novel, many writers have a million ideas on how this can be achieved. Some work, such as making yourself write for at least fifteen minutes each day. However, if one wants to make generating their first book easy, they need a bizaare vacation, several pens, and a notebook in which to journal their experience and they will have the outline for their humorous adventure autobiography.

The truth is great works of literature do not happen on pure imagination. Staying safe and warm never gave anyone a Eureka moment, and this includes writers as well as philosophers or scientists. No author worth their merit did all of their best work while sitting comfortably in their home.

Perhaps the most difficult part of coming up with such a novel idea is figuring out what sort of trip would be perfectly hilarious, intense, memorable, and interesting enough for fans to read about later. Motorcycle adventures spawned two epic novels; Easy Rider and Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance. Even works of fiction such as Dune were created only after extensive travels and research had been conducted on the culture of Middle Eastern desert countries.

In order to make it real and make it intense, it should be a trip where the author has little control over how events go down. Traveling with others on such a trip is recommended for the sake of safety, but if both or all are being challenged, it adds dimension to the story. It reminds readers that the point to life is to experience it, and allows them to relive that sort of wonder through the characters in the book.

Traveling to a part of the world where the culture is completely alien to what the writer is used to can also provide anyone with plenty to write about. A Westerner traveling to the East; China or India being the most obvious suggestions, is a solid idea. The trick to making such a trip worthwhile is avoiding any tourist destinations.

A great place to start might even be in the town where they live, but pretending to be a foreign tourist. Not only could that be a laugh riot to do and to read about, but it can certainly expand their perspectives on their own home town. It also provides new authors with good practice at talking to strangers without making them feel they are being interviewed.

If jumping a train or visiting Mumbai is a bit too extreme for your taste, a safer trip may be a perfect start. Not every account of each individual experience is necessarily worthy of a novel, but it does get the writer out into the world and doing what he or she loves; writing. Even the most mundane vacation trip is bound to have SOMETHING happen.

Most people are not big into hand-written documents these days, and there is no harm in having recording equipment available. Video footage can really make a record of the trip and help any new writer remember all the details of their trip. Watching five minutes of video can bring back ten hours of what happened on a specific day.




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