ISBN 9781847370709, Simon & Schuster, 2007

Can you write a novel in a year?

Can you write a novel at all?

There’s only one way to find out!

Based on her highly successful newspaper column, Louise Doughty’s, A Novel in a Year, takes a clear-eyed, frank and funny approach to the practicalities of novel writing and being a novelist. Designed to be read a chapter a week, Doughty discusses issues such as finding time to write and crafting first lines through to plot construction and narrative viewpoint. Practical writing exercises at the end of every other chapter show you how to build ideas to form the raw material for a book. A Novel in a Year is a witty, gritty and honest look at technique from a working novelist who takes no prisoners.

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