Category: Novel Writing

Ten Tips to Help You Finish Writing Your Novel

22.12.2011 19:45 Comments: 0 Categories: Novel Writing Tags: finish writing novel novel ann roscopf allen

Trying to write a novel is ambitious, but finishing it is what gets people's attention. Many people have wonderful ideas for stories and have even begun to write books...

12 Ways to Research a Historical Novel

22.12.2011 19:21 Comments: 0 Categories: Novel Writing Fiction Writing Writing Historical Tags: research historical novel ann roscopf allen

Whether you are fictionalizing historical events or making up your own story, attention to detail can determine whether your novel is credible to history buffs or if they’ll give it a pass.

Writing a Novel: The Secret Every Writer Needs to Know

18.12.2011 12:49 Comments: 0 Categories: Novel Writing Writing Tips Tags: julie coan writing a novel secret writers needs to know

There’s nothing more important to writing a successful novel than identifying the key problem of the story. This article shows how easy it is.

A Novelist's Bag of Tricks

28.10.2011 12:07 Comments: 0 Categories: Novel Writing Fiction Writing Writing Tips Tags: author novelist bag of tricks melanie anne phillips

A novel can be extremely free form. Some are simply narratives about a fictional experience. Others are a collection of several stories that may or may not be intertwined.

Novel Writing Tips: Don’t Hold Back

16.10.2011 00:51 Comments: 0 Categories: Fiction Writing Novel Writing Writing Tips Tags: novel writing writing tips melanie anne phillips

Unlike screenplays, there are no budget constraints in a book. You can write, “The entire solar system exploded, planet at a time,” as easily as you can write, “a leaf fell from the tree.”

Character In Fiction

25.09.2011 21:09 Comments: 0 Categories: Fiction Elements Fiction Writing Novel Writing Writing Writing Craft Writing Characters Writing Tips Tags: character in fiction characters fiction crawford kilian

Plausible, complex characters are crucial to successful storytelling. You can develop them in several ways.

Writing - Is it a Craft Or an Art?

13.09.2011 14:43 Comments: 0 Categories: Fiction Writing Novel Writing Writing Craft Writing Tips Writing Tags: writing art craft rocky cole

There has been a quiet debate among writing teachers for a long time about whether writing is a craft or an art. That is not a simple question to answer because writing...

The Power of Your Novel's First Sentence

08.09.2011 16:04 Comments: 0 Categories: Fiction Writing Creative Writing Novel Writing Writing Writing Fiction Writing Tips Tags: novel's first sentence joseph suggs

Here's what happens (and I bet you do this too): a book jumps out at you at the bookstore.

Novel Writing: Aspects of the Novel

06.09.2011 09:47 Comments: 0 Categories: Fiction Elements Fiction Writing Novel Writing Writing Writing a Novel Writing Craft Writing Tips Tags: aspects of the novel e m forster novel writing

E M Forster was a successful novelist and later an academic. Three of his novels, A Room with a View (1908), Howard’s End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) have been made into films.

Storyboarding a Novel

30.08.2011 20:58 Comments: 0 Categories: Fiction Elements Fiction Writing Writing Writing Craft Writing Tips Storyboarding Novel Writing Tags: harry taylor storyboarding novel writing tips chapters storyline

Before computers and all the software that lets a writer technologically storyboard his or her novel in Excel or other "trackers," ...

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