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How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction
HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL
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V. HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL:
A Practical Guide to the Art
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London: GRANT RICHARDS
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The "how to" Series
HOW TO WRITE A
NOVEL
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE ART
OF FICTION
LONDON
GRANT RICHARDS
9 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.
1901
PREFACE
This little book is one which so well explains itself that no introductory word is needed; and I only venture to intrude a sentence or two here with a view to explain the style in which I have conveyed my ideas. I desired to be plain and practical, and therefore chose the direct and epistolary form as being most suitable for the purpose in hand.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| THE OBJECT IN VIEW | |
| PAGE | |
| An Inevitable Comparison | 3 |
| A Model Lesson in Novel-Writing | 5 |
| The Teachable and the Unteachable | 9 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| A GOOD STORY TO TELL | |
| Where do Novelists get their Stories from? | 12 |
| Is there a Deeper Question? | 14 |
| What about the Newspapers? | 17 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| HOW TO BEGIN | |
| Formation of the Plot | 25 |
| The Agonies and Joys of "Plot-Construction" | 28 |
| Care in the Use of Actual Events | 31 |
| The Natural History of a Plot | 35 |
| Sir Walter Besant on the Evolution of a Plot | 40 |
| Plot-Formation in Earnest | 43 |
| Characters first: Plot afterwards | 45 |
| The Natural Background | 47 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERISATION | |
| The Chief Character | 50 |
| How to Portray Character | 52 |
| Methods of Characterisation | 55 |
| The Trick of "Idiosyncrasies" | |