A Novel in a Year-Part 3

Here is the third set of links to Louise Doughty’s columns on A Novel in a Year. The columns are available on The Daily Telegraph website, though they are deep in the archives, and have also been gathered together and published in a book, A Novel in a Year: From First Page to Last in 52 Weeks, available through Amazon.

Week 25 – Think about what your character wants from life, and what stands in his way

Week 26 – This is the time to write recklessly, before we pull it all together

Week 27 – Give your characters good obstacles to help them move forward

Week 28 – If your novel is going nowhere, make a real journey towards your character

Week 29 – Do you know what your character looks like? Visualise telling details

Week 30 – Assemble all the bits and pieces of your work and stand back for a moment

Week 31 – Good character description always tells us something important

Week 32 – Writer’s block can strike at any time – get through it by reading

Week 33 – Learn the trick of trimming as you go, and cut out the adverbs and adjectives

Week 34 – Write without inhibition but edit with precision

Week 35 – Keep prose tight at the start of your novel, so as to draw the reader in

Week 36 – Mind your language: sex, swearing and violence can be a turn-off to readers

Next up, the last set of twelve weeks of Novel in a Year columns.

Pick up your copy of A Novel in a Year: From First Page to Last in 52 Weeks and visit Louise’s website to learn more about her novels.

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1. A Novel in a Year-Part 2
2. A Novel in a Year-Part 1
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