How To Write a Concept For Your Novel Idea

And why you need a concept that looks like something that has come before.

Monica Leonelle
The Productive Novelist
5 min readJan 24, 2020

--

Photo by Nong Vang on Unsplash

A lot of stories start with an idea — but usually, there’s not enough there to begin writing a story.

Today we’re going from idea to concept. Here are a few examples of ideas that eventually became stories in our modern culture:

--

--

Monica Leonelle
The Productive Novelist

Writer, entrepreneur, artist. USA TODAY bestseller. I help people get their big stories, messages, and ideas out into the world at The World Needs Your Book.