You will need several things for a workable fantasy novel. When you begin your story will need a plot. It can be quite hard to find an idea. Once you find the idea and plot for your story you need to add interesting and workable facts. No one will buy a boring novel. Write something that is interesting to you and it will be interesting to someone else. To write fantasy novels takes work, but can be a lot of fun.
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You will need several things for a workable fantasy novel. When you begin your story will need a plot. It can be quite hard to find an idea. Once you find the idea and plot for your story you need to add interesting and workable facts. No one will buy a boring novel. Write something that is interesting to you and it will be interesting to someone else. To write fantasy novels takes work, but can be a lot of fun.

By workable I mean that it needs to fit into some type of logic. You will need rules, structure, and limitations. Be prepared to explain the whys and hows. For instance if you write about ghost, vampires, or werewolves then you will need to explain what limitations they have. If your writing about magic, or fantasy creatures you need to give some idea of how this works in your fantasy world.

You will need to make an outline before you start writing. All an outline is, is just your idea put down on paper. The main character, location, and the main points in the story will need to be included in your outline. Make sure to write down any and all details for your fantasy world.

The main character of your story will need to be decided. When deciding on a protagonist (main character) you have to pick a gender. Some people would rather write a character of the same sex they are. That may not always work if your story line calls for the opposite gender. Next is the age, occupation, and background of your protagonist.

It can be hard to make a person from scratch that is why the main character can be the hardest in the book to come up with. Your main character will need physical traits and a personality. When giving your character their physical traits make sure to include height, weight, eye color and hair color. Do not put the traits in all at once because it will sound like a list. Slowly add them to the story.

Next you need a personality for your character. Decide if your main character will be shy, outgoing, quite, loud, arrogant, sensitive, intelligent, mean, or nice. The personality of your character will determine the way they react to certain things in the story.

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