Writing a Novel
eBook - ePub

Writing a Novel

Bring Your Ideas To Life The Faber Academy Way

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Writing a Novel

Bring Your Ideas To Life The Faber Academy Way

About this book

Writing A Novel is not a set of rules and regulations. It is an atlas, a guide to finding your own way over the treacherous passes of your first novel.

Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great fiction - narrators, characters, settings - with charm and rigour. But more than that, he argues that the journey towards a final manuscript is as important as the finished article itself.

His approach works: many of Richard's students have gone on to secure publishing deals and many more have left his courses with work to be proud of. With its balance of warmth and wisdom, Writing a Novel will give any aspiring writer the confidence to face the blank page -- and to fill it.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. What is writing really about?
  8. Creating ideas
  9. Planning
  10. Character
  11. Point of view
  12. Dialogue
  13. Story vs plot
  14. Conflict
  15. The passage of time
  16. Pace
  17. Setting
  18. Historical fiction
  19. Life writing
  20. Editing
  21. Afterword
  22. Essays referred to and recommended
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. The Thirty Steps
  25. About the Author
  26. Also by the Author
  27. Copyright