Before You Write Your Novel: Essential Skills for the First-time Novelist

by James McCreet

Overview

Previously available as "Before You Write a Word", Before You Write Your Novel sets out the essential techniques and approaches that lay the perfect foundation for writing your first novel. This concise and readable guide addresses the major stumbling blocks of fiction writing: the importance of planning and structure. This book covers the essential components of novel writing including narrative, story, plot, pace, chronology, character arc and engagement techniques, as well as research, story building, plotting and editing. Using an open and honest approach, feeding from his own experience as a published novelist and creative writing teacher, James McCreet offers a guide to the structural mechanisms of the novel, helping you plan a first draft through to a finished novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317286622
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/17/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	214
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

James McCreet has worked as a teacher, a bookseller, an editor, a copywriter, and a journalist. He teaches the MA Novel course at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Table of Contents

About the Author Why listen to me? Introduction Chapter 1. Readiness Chapter 2. The Idea Chapter 3. Building Story Chapter 4. Construction Chapter 5. Narrative Approaches Chapter 6. Case Study: Plotting a Novel Chapter 7. Troubleshooting Chapter 8. Before You Write a Word Thematic Reading List