I’ve started writ­ing a novel. I don’t have ideas of grandeur or dreams of retir­ing from novel roy­al­ties; I write because I enjoy doing so and because I find it ther­a­peu­tic. Still, it’s nice to pro­duce leg­i­ble prose and to do so requires at least a bit of forethought.That’s where The Snowflake Method comes into play.

Good fic­tion doesn’t just hap­pen, it is designed. You can do the design work before or after you write your novel. I’ve done it both ways and I strongly believe that doing it first is quicker and leads to a bet­ter result. Design is hard work, so it’s impor­tant to find a guid­ing prin­ci­ple early on. This arti­cle will give you a pow­er­ful metaphor to guide your design.

Our fun­da­men­tal ques­tion is this: How do you design a novel?

Thanks Andy