How to Write a Novel
How to Write a Novel
A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction
Free DownloadThis little book is one which so well explains itself that no introductory word is needed; and I only venture to intrude a sentence or two here with a view to explain the style in which I have conveyed my ideas. I desired to be plain and practical, and therefore chose the direct and epistolary form as being most suitable for the purpose in hand.
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y all thoughts of rule and law--nay, in time, his very ideas assume artistic form.
FOOTNOTES:
[1:A] The New Century Review, vol. i.
[5:A] "Shakespeare: His Mind and Art," p. 61.
CHAPTER II
A GOOD STORY TO TELL
Where do Novelists get their Stories from?
I said a moment ago that no teaching could impart a story. If you cannot invent one for yourself, by observation of life and sympathetic insight into human nature, you may depend upon it that you are not called to be a writer of novels. Then where, it may be asked, do novelists get their stories? Well, they hardly know themselves; they say the ideas "come." For instance, here is the way Mr Baring Gould describes the advent of "Mehalah." "One day in Essex, a friend, a captain in the coastguard, invited me to accompany him on a cruise among the creeks in the estuary of the Maldon river--the Blackwater. I went out, an
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A very handy book for anyone contemplating writing a book. It smartly divides the art of writing into its integral components, divide and conquer, as they say.
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I don't know why the author chose to be anonymous. This is a very interesting and practical book about the process of writing a novel. (I had no idea how much work it takes.) I wasn't going to write a novel, but I like knowing how it's done.
12/25/2012
