GUIDE TO HOW TO WRITE -WRITERS' & ARTISTS'

Take your novel from idea to finished manuscript with guidance from bestselling novelist and experienced creative writing tutor William Ryan. It covers organising your time and space, formatting saving and revising, networking and learning, research, atmosphere and setting, central characters and questioning whether you have chosen the right central character, managing subsidiary characters, the plot, first chapters and prologues, writing scenes and deciding who is telling the scene, the purpose of dialogue, motivation, compromise, and identifying which agents to submit to, negotiating a book deal and managing your relationship with your publishers. Learn the craft of effective storytelling with tried-and-tested examples and details on what to consider when writing for any audience, across any genre. Each chapter tackles a key aspect of the writing process, including how to: structure a novel, develop central and subsidiary characters, create atmosphere and tension, write punchy dialogue and pacey scenes. From the bestselling and trusted creative writing brand of Yearbook fame, the book concentrates on advice on how to construct, craft and draft novels across all genres, but the examples and details on what to consider when writing for any audience means it is relevant to writing in all its forms, including books for children and non-fiction. 246 page paperback.