A Novel in a Year
From First Page to Last in 52 Weeks
By Louise Doughty
(Harper Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780061686382, 272pp.)
Publication Date: December 11, 2008
Categories: Composition & Creative Writing - Fiction
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An essential guide for every aspiring novelist!
The thought of writing a full-length novel can be daunting. But in A Novel in a Year, Louise Doughty makes a seemingly vast and unconquerable task manageable by walking aspiring authors through the different aspects of writing technique in eminently accessible bite-size chunks. Here are fifty-two chapters offering useful advice on all the facets of writing and exercises designed to help writers of all levels develop confidence and style. Read a chapter a week, and by year's end, you will have accomplished your goal and made it to "the End."
Louise Doughty is the author of five novels, including the internationally acclaimed Fires in the Dark, which won awards from the Arts Council of Great Britain and the K Blundell Trust. She has also written five plays for radio and is a well-known columnist and radio presenter in the United Kingdom. She lives in London.
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