How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction
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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:
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:
CHAPTER IV
CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERISATION
The Chief Character
How to Portray Character
Methods of Characterisation
The Trick of "Idiosyncrasies"
CHAPTER V
STUDIES IN LITERARY TECHNIQUE
Narrative Art
Movement
Aids to Description
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VI
STUDIES IN LITERARY TECHNIQUE
Colour: Local and Otherwise
What About Dialect?
On Dialogue
Points in Conversation
"Atmosphere"
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VII
PITFALLS
Items of General Knowledge
Specific Subjects
Topography and Geography
Scientific Facts
Grammar
CHAPTER VIII
THE SECRET OF STYLE
Communicable Elements
Incommunicable Elements
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:
CHAPTER X
IS THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF NOVELS EXHAUSTED?
The Question Stated
"Change" not "Exhaustion"
Why we talk about Exhaustion
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XI
THE NOVEL v. THE SHORT STORY
Practise the Short Story
Short Story Writers on their Art
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XII
SUCCESS: AND SOME OF ITS MINOR CONDITIONS
The Truth about Success
FOOTNOTES:
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
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