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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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

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

McCreet, James

Paperback

Literary CriticismWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 1138186732
ISBN13: 9781138186736
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 24 2016
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

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.

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