How to Write a Novel

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - *Non-fiction, Writing & Linguistics

Authors: Anonymous In Year : 1901

Book Language: English

Audiobook: How to Write a Novel

The Object in View
A Good Story to Tell
How to Begin
Characters and Characterisation
Studies in Literary Technique
Studies in Literary Technique--Continued
Pitfalls & The Secret of Style
How Authors Work
Is the Subject-Matter of Novels Exhausted
The Novel v. The Short Story & Success: And Some of Its Minor Conditions

I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of characters, the formation of plots, and a host of other points with which I shall deal hereafter. Although no school could turn out novelists to order there is yet enough common material in all art-work to be mapped out in a course of lessons. I shall show that the two great requisites of novel-writing are (1) a good story to tell, and (2) ability to tell it effectively. Briefly stated, my position is this: no teaching can produce "good stories to tell," but it can increase the power of "the telling," and change it from crude and ineffective methods to those which reach the apex of developed art. - Summary from the preface