Full Description
Let best-selling novelist Sophie King guide you through the whole process of writing your first novel and getting it published.
This revised edition takes aspiring novelists through the steps of writing a novel, from finding that initial idea, to keeping the plot going and crafting the perfect ending. With helpful exercises in each chapter you will learn how to:
- Develop a brilliant idea for your first novel
- Create characters that will make your novel come alive
- Plot your novel so that your readers simply have to turn the page
- Unravel the mysteries of viewpoint
- Create realistic dialogue and settings so your readers feel they are there
- Find your own voice.
- Most importantly, the book includes tips and advice on how to get published.
This new edition also includes a ten step guide to revision so that you can polish your novel to be the best it can be.
Contents
0: Preface
1: Are You Ready to Commit?
2: A Novel Idea?
3: Finding Your Own Voice
4: The Killer First Sentence
5: It's All in the Plot: Part One
6: It's All in the Plot: Part Two
7: Who Are You? How to Create Convincing Characters
8: Viewpoint
9: De-mystifying Dialogue
10: Setting
11: How to Show and Not Tell
12: Sense and Sensibility
13: Humour
14: Different Genres
15: How to Keep a Timeline
16: The Art of Revision
17: Synopsis
18: The Title
19: Revealing All!
20: How to Get Published
21: Writing the Next Novel
22: Don't Skip This! It Might Help ...
0: Index
