“London 1666: a schoolboy and a thief brave the perils of the Great Fire to prevent an even more terrible catastrophe!” Here’s a one sentence summary of my YA novel, The Last Seal: We should learn which character has the most to lose in this story and what he or she wants to gain. This sentence should aim to tie together the big picture of the book with the personal picture of the main character. It is better to say “a mercenary time travelling adventurer” than “Septimus Mason”. A good sentence is shorter rather than longer – ideally fewer than 15 words. This sentence could become the hook that will sell your book. Write a one-sentence summary of your novel. I summarise the main steps here, using my YA historical novel The Last Seal as an example: As you go along you often find new ideas pop up – indeed these can often be stimulated more because you already know the direction the novel is going and so your flakes of inspiration can link in better. You have to be creative at the start as you make the snowflake. Once you have built the snowflake it makes the writing easier. You wrench the story idea out of your head at the start. Furthermore you should spend less time staring at a blank page. The idea of the Snowflake Method is that, if it is done well, you can avoid major plot issues requiring major rewrites because you already have done that work. It was invented by Randy Ingermanson, the multiple-award-winning US novelist and teacher of writing crafts. British historical novelist Richard Denning explains the very popular Snowflake Method for planning and writing novels, illustrated by examples from one of his seven YA (young adult) novels, The Last Seal.Īs a a self-published author of historical fiction and historical fantasy, I use the Snowflake Method to help me write novels.
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