How to Write a Novel

by Braine, John

• ISBN13: 9780413315403
• ISBN10: 0413315401
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Methuen Pub Ltd

Summary

A classic practical guide and manual which tells the aspiring writer everything about writing a publishable first novel.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(8)
A writer is a person who writes	17	(20)
Always write from experience	37	(14)
Writing is seeing	51	(18)
A good beginning means a good book	69	(16)
Dialogue	85	(18)
Narrative prose	103	(10)
First- and third-person narrative	113	(10)
The point of improbability	123	(27)
The quick and the dead	150	(6)
The quick	156	(10)
Notes	166