PARALLELS BETWEEN BUILDING A HOUSE & WRITING A BOOK
As our house moves slowly but surely towards completion it has occurred to me that there is a parallel between building a house and writing a book. Obviously the writing process doesn’t require quite the same tools, the only hammering has been on my keyboard & I’m not into biting my nails. However, a writer needs a toolbox from which they can produce the tools of their specific craft. A commercial builder would never go about building a house that he didn’t think would be attractive to the market, the same principle applies to writing a novel. Unless of course you are writing purely for yourself you have to focus on producing a book that people will read & enjoy & hopefully take something away from the experience. An architect or builder’s plan shows the design & the outline of the house. If you didn’t follow the necessary steps of progression then it would take an awfully long time to finalise. And there’s no guarantee that the finished product would look as you en