A Novel in a Year

A Novelist's Guide to Being a Novelist

Louise Doughty

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847394781
• Print ISBN:
  9781398513358

Can you write a novel in a year?

If you simply sit back and think about the enormity of writing a book, it will seem like a vast and unconquerable task, impossibly daunting. The way to make it less daunting is to break it down into its constituent parts, to do it bit by bit. Over the chapters herein, different aspects of technique are divided up into bite size chunks, the better to aid digestion.

The book will look at different aspects of writing, with set exercises to help the reader along in their confidence and technique. It is designed to be read a chapter a week, with the aim of the fledgling writer having a body of material at the year's end which should form a solid start to their novel.

Deeply practical, with sound advice at every stage, A NOVEL IN A YEAR is essential reading for any would-be novelist.

Table of contents

• COVER
• Novels by Louise Doughty
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT
• DEDICATION
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• WEEK 1
• WEEK 2
• WEEK 3
• WEEK 4
• WEEK 5
• WEEK 6
• WEEK 7
• WEEK 8
• WEEK 9
• WEEK 10
• WEEK 11
• WEEK 12
• WEEK 13
• WEEK 14
• WEEK 15
• WEEK 16
• WEEK 17
• WEEK 18
• WEEK 19
• WEEK 20
• WEEK 21
• WEEK 22
• WEEK 23
• WEEK 24
• WEEK 25
• WEEK 26
• WEEK 27
• WEEK 28
• WEEK 29
• WEEK 30
• WEEK 31
• WEEK 32
• WEEK 33
• WEEK 34
• WEEK 35
• WEEK 36
• WEEK 37
• WEEK 38
• WEEK 39
• WEEK 40
• WEEK 41
• WEEK 42
• WEEK 43
• WEEK 44
• WEEK 45
• WEEK 46
• WEEK 47
• WEEK 48
• WEEK 49
• WEEK 50
• WEEK 51
• WEEK 52