The First Step To Writing A Book: 1. Find Out Your Book's Genre

1. What category do you want your book to be placed under?

A) There are many categories/genres to pick from. Like: Fantasy, Mystery, Historical, Biblical, Fiction, NonFiction, Novel, Short Story, Ect, Ect, Ect... But try to find the ones that best suit your book. (Look up on google "Book Genres" and that should give you more options)

2. Whatever genre you pick, you need to stay to through the whole book.

A)In a book you will have to build a plot, and to build that plot you need outlines, and to build the outlines you need (a) genre(s). Something you can place your book under so the readers can know what kind of book they are reading. You have to follow through in the story what you promised in the beginning. So I would recommend finding the genre before writing the book, then bring it back in the end and see if the genre(s) still works for you.

3. You can always pick more than one genre to define your book.

A) Although you have to stick to your genre, you can also pick more than one. That itself can give you more story options and more free writing space. (I will refer back to this phase "free writing space" later in my blog, and I will explain it more.)

This first step should help you discover what kind of book you want to write. 

I will write back soon!

~Bethany