Little Idea – big book

Someone on Quora asked, “How can I turn a simple idea into a full novel?” and I wrote him answer as shown below-

Well, ideas are shorter to turn into a novel. But you can expand your ideas and make a novel out of it. I wrote my first novel, “Friendship, Love & Sacrifice” out of an idea of writing a novel about Friendship and what happens if you fall in love with a friend.

But also, Idea expansion is the key, you have to have more and more ideas, or 100(s) of ideas before you start that novel. First you have to figure out your Main idea, the main idea is what you want readers to understand or learn after reading your novel. Then you have to figure out a plot for it. You also have to Plot Ideas so that your main idea doesn’t fade away. So it goes like this, first you have to figure out the main idea. Then you have to plot the story according to that Main idea, and also you have to create sub-divisions in  the Main Idea so that you can present it in your novel in various parts. Well, it is boring process but once you figure out, you can turn your idea into a novel or even a series. but you have to have a lot of ideas before you start.

And Characters are also important, the character must be new and vivid and interesting. The character are the people who move novel in a progressive way. You have to create a character who is strong and weak altogether. and other characters and explore them. Presenting character and giving them depth in novel is also important. Writing from you main character’s point of view, what he thinks, why is that? and what have to be done?