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Table of Contents
- HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL
- HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL
- A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE ART OF FICTION
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL
- CHAPTER I
- THE OBJECT IN VIEW
- An Inevitable Comparison
- A Model Lesson in Novel-Writing
- The Teachable and the Unteachable
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER II
- A GOOD STORY TO TELL
- Where do Novelists get their Stories from?
- Is there a Deeper Question?
- What about the Newspapers?
- FOOTNOTES:
- A GOOD STORY TO TELL
- CHAPTER III
- HOW TO BEGIN
- Formation of the Plot
- The Agonies and Joys of "Plot-Construction"
- Care in the Use of Actual Events
- The Natural History of a Plot
- Sir Walter Besant on the Evolution of a Plot
- Plot-Formation in Earnest
- Characters first: Plot afterwards
- The Natural Background
- FOOTNOTES:
- HOW TO BEGIN
- CHAPTER IV
- CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERISATION
- The Chief Character
- How to Portray Character
- Methods of Characterisation
- The Trick of "Idiosyncrasies"
- CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERISATION
- CHAPTER V
- STUDIES IN LITERARY TECHNIQUE
- Narrative Art
- Movement
- Aids to Description
- FOOTNOTES:
- STUDIES IN LITERARY TECHNIQUE
- CHAPTER VI
- STUDIES IN LITERARY TECHNIQUE
- Colour: Local and Otherwise
- What About Dialect?
- On Dialogue
- Points in Conversation
- "Atmosphere"
- FOOTNOTES:
- STUDIES IN LITERARY TECHNIQUE
- CHAPTER VII
- PITFALLS
- Items of General Knowledge
- Specific Subjects
- Topography and Geography
- Scientific Facts
- Grammar
- PITFALLS
- CHAPTER VIII
- THE SECRET OF STYLE
- Communicable Elements
- Incommunicable Elements
- THE SECRET OF STYLE
- CHAPTER IX
- HOW AUTHORS WORK
- Quick and Slow
- How many Words a Day?
- Charles Reade and Anthony Trollope
- The Mission of Fancy
- Fancies of another Type
- Some of our Younger Writers
- Curious Methods
- FOOTNOTES:
- HOW AUTHORS WORK
- CHAPTER X
- IS THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF NOVELS EXHAUSTED?
- The Question Stated
- "Change" not "Exhaustion"
- Why we talk about Exhaustion
- FOOTNOTES:
- IS THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF NOVELS EXHAUSTED?
- CHAPTER XI
- THE NOVEL v. THE SHORT STORY
- Practise the Short Story
- Short Story Writers on their Art
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE NOVEL v. THE SHORT STORY
- CHAPTER XII
- SUCCESS: AND SOME OF ITS MINOR CONDITIONS
- The Truth about Success
- FOOTNOTES:
- SUCCESS: AND SOME OF ITS MINOR CONDITIONS
- SUCCESS
- Minor Conditions of Success
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION[175:1]
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX II
- BOOKS WORTH READING
- APPENDIX III
- MAGAZINE ARTICLES ON WRITING FICTION
- TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
- CHAPTER I
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