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A novel is a relationship, a place outside of time where both reader and writer are challenged and validated, stretched and rewarded.

Richard Skinner believes it is your duty as a novelist to bring your whole self to the page; to find your story, not force it; to meet your reader in a spirit of openness.

In Writing a Novel he offers up frameworks, strategies and stimuli to help you meet that duty, drawingon his deep experience as one of the UK's leading creative writing teachers. He covers the essentials narrators, character, setting with charm and rigour. But Writing a Novel is not a set of instructions: it is a way of thinking, a conversation, a relationship in itself.

Writing a Novel

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    A Paperback / softback by Richard Skinner

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 2 August 2018
      ISBN-13 9780571340460
      978-0571340460
      ISBN-10 0571340466
      Also in:
      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Creative writing

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A novel is a relationship, a place outside of time where both reader and writer are challenged and validated, stretched and rewarded.

      Richard Skinner believes it is your duty as a novelist to bring your whole self to the page; to find your story, not force it; to meet your reader in a spirit of openness.

      In Writing a Novel he offers up frameworks, strategies and stimuli to help you meet that duty, drawingon his deep experience as one of the UK's leading creative writing teachers. He covers the essentials narrators, character, setting with charm and rigour. But Writing a Novel is not a set of instructions: it is a way of thinking, a conversation, a relationship in itself.

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