How To Write A Novel

About this eBook

Author

Anonymous

Title

How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction

Credits

Produced by David Starner, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Fiction -- Authorship

Category

Text

eBook-No.

38887

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38887

Release Date

February 15, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL — HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL
2. 2.A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE ART OF FICTION
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS — HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL
5. 5.CHAPTER I — THE OBJECT IN VIEW — An Inevitable Comparison — A Model Lesson in Novel-Writing — The Teachable and the Unteachable — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.CHAPTER II — A GOOD STORY TO TELL — Where do Novelists get their Stories from? — Is there a Deeper Question? — What about the Newspapers? — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.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:
8. 8.CHAPTER IV — CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERISATION — The Chief Character — How to Portray Character — Methods of Characterisation — The Trick of "Idiosyncrasies"
9. 9.CHAPTER V — STUDIES IN LITERARY TECHNIQUE — Narrative Art — Movement — Aids to Description — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER VI — STUDIES IN LITERARY TECHNIQUE — Colour: Local and Otherwise — What About Dialect? — On Dialogue — Points in Conversation — "Atmosphere" — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER VII — PITFALLS — Items of General Knowledge — Specific Subjects — Topography and Geography — Scientific Facts — Grammar
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII — THE SECRET OF STYLE — Communicable Elements — Incommunicable Elements
13. 13.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:
14. 14.CHAPTER X — IS THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF NOVELS EXHAUSTED? — The Question Stated — "Change" not "Exhaustion" — Why we talk about Exhaustion — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.CHAPTER XI — THE NOVEL v. THE SHORT STORY — Practise the Short Story — Short Story Writers on their Art — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.CHAPTER XII — SUCCESS: AND SOME OF ITS MINOR CONDITIONS — The Truth about Success — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.SUCCESS — Minor Conditions of Success
18. 18.APPENDICES
19. 19.APPENDIX I — THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION [175:1] — By Edgar Allan Poe — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.APPENDIX II — BOOKS WORTH READING
21. 21.APPENDIX III — MAGAZINE ARTICLES ON WRITING FICTION
22. 22.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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