Writing Handbooks
Novel Writing by Evan Marshall
The fourth very helpful excerpt from this title from the A & C Black Writing Handbooks series looks at Getting Off to the Right start by understanding the classic structure of the novel and determining your novel's ideal length: 'OK, you have your target genre, a story idea and some characters. Why not just start writing? Because without some kind of plan, a map of the route your story will take, you’re practically guaranteed to start with a bang and, sooner or later, look up and say, ‘Now what?’
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