Posts Tagged ‘How to write a novel’
Here’s how you create a setting: One hour before nightfall, on a pink-and-blue evening in the third week of August, 2011 … Here’s how you create a character: a solitary man traveling on foot … Here’s how you introduce a situation: entered the small, tree-shadowed town of Clifton — an isolated village about which many […]
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Here’s how you create a character: Julia … Here’s how you develop your character: liked strong men with brooding features and complicated brains. Here’s how you create a new character: She made Michael’s acquaintance Here’s how you create a setting: in a quiet diner, one warm and windswept autumn evening, along the outskirts of Tucson. […]
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There is a formula (of sorts) to novel-writing, but that formula should always be framed in terms of principles, and not concretes. By concretes, I’m referring to these interminable lists of specifics we so often see that tell us what to do and what not to do but never give us the principle behind the […]
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(c)Ray Harvey 2011