how to write a novel?

[anuroop]

Could anyone tell me how to write a novel. Do we have to read a lot of books and observe things around you anybody please give me the necessary tips.

[Emsidian]

What do you mean "How to write a novel"? To me, no one can tell you exactly how to write a novel. Have you written a short story? It's just like writing thoughs with a longer story plot, more characters, description, ect. Novels are 50,000 words. Just write, observe things, and brainstorm!

[Alice Glitterhorn]

First of all, you need to use proper grammar. When asking a question, you end the sentence with a question mark. Also, your second sentence was a run-on (use a semi-colon between "you" and "anybody").
Writing novels are different for everyone. I'd suggest writing a detailed summary of what you'd like the plot to be. You don't have to follow it all the way through, but it's helpful to keep you on track. Use lots of detail and, yes, read lots and lots and [I]lots[I] of books. As Emsidian said, observation is good; it helps you develop character and settings and things like that. Try reading books about how to write novels, because I know there are some out there. Authors sometimes give advice on their web pages, so be on the look out for that sort of thing.
And always ask people to read your work and criticize it, because that will help more than you can imagine :)

[thecollector]

Dude, let me put it this way- It's not how. It's what.. Trust me. You don't have to observe anything, train yourself to do anything, or buy yourself a sweatshirt that says "I'm a writer" to write a novel. Let the ideas come to you; don't copy what's already been done. Once you have your own ideas, just start writing the start of them like how you're going to introduce your character(s) and things like that. Don't worry about if it has chapters or parts. Just write the story, post excerpts on here, and people will help you get better at writing by giving you tips on what you're doing wrong and what really sounds awesome. However, without reading something you wrote, we can't help you in this thread because we can't visibly see your mistakes in writing... Does that make sense?

[owl]

I wouldn't even worry about how original your ideas are at this point. I wouldn't even worry about whether your chapters are more than a page or if your story last longer than twenty-five pages. Writing long form takes endurance more than anything, (at least for me -- I usually get wheezy around page 100, and that's after years of building up my novelist's version of lung capacity.) It takes time. You aren't going to end up with the modern Lord of the Rings your first time around. You probably won't even make it past a short story with awkward chapter breaks.

I urge you to embrace this. The more you try to write long form, the more you practice building chapters like bricks, the more you practice handling a longer plots with all the tributaries that branch off it to form subplots, the better you'll get.

This is the only concrete advice I can give you. As you go, your stories will become more intricate. They'll become your own. They'll also become harder to write. Consider this the true test of your endurance as a novelist. My experience writing novels is that the good ones will be bigger than you. You'll have to wrestle them. That doesn't come until later, though.

It's the writing-span of the novel that makes it different than a short story, truly. Short stories will have given you the tools you need to write something with a longer wingspan, but don't worry about mechanics, don't worry about plot, don't worry about characters until you're revising. Just worry about getting the story down. THEN you can craft it into something good, something better than good. This is my advice to you.