Recently I gave - I finished a draft of a novel, and I gave it to my husband to read, and about two weeks later I said to him oh, you know, it's just complete garbage.
I've got a few really good ideas for novel-length works, but I mean I'm finding the transition from writing short stories to writing something longer just increasably(ph) difficult.
The large bulk of this book is excellent, and as a stand-alone novel I probably would have had none of the same criticisms.
This Fourth of July, I will be flying back to the United States, from England, after a three-week research trip for a novel I am about to begin writing.
When it comes to fiction, Tim Winton's Cloudstreet is probably the must-read novel, although I thought Breath was brilliant at making sense of the joy and wonder of surfing to people who have never ridden a wave.
And it occurs to me that the novel I'd most love to write would be a 21st-century update of Achebe's final novel, "Anthills of the Savannah" (1987).
And by the - I got to the end of the novel, and I noticed, for example, that I'd forgotten what I'd called certain characters.
Specifically, I presented him with a novel proposal: I asked to join the firm as a writer, not a full-time consultant.
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I'm the co-author of Boob Tube, a novel that explores the behind-the-scenes world of daytime soap operas.
Even before signing the contract for my "yoga detective" novel "Downward-Facing Death, " I needed to start writing.
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He is secluding himself, I think, to sit down at a large, multi-volume novel.
As the name suggests, cell phone novels are written entirely on handsets and posted on sites like Maho no i-rando (Magic Island), the first and largest mobile novel portal in Japan.
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Ms. PROSE: Well, you know, the thing about editing your work is that once - I mean you don't really need someone to edit an entire novel.
Palacio's acclaimed story of a boy born with a facial deformity will compete in the 5-12-year-old category against Jim Smith for his novel Barry Loser: I Am Not A Loser, Helen Peters' The Secret Hen House Theatre, as well as Rodkey's tale about cut-throat pirates.
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In trying to wrap my head around the Karma hotspot a new prepaid 4G mobile hotspot service that relies on a novel model I keep coming back to the (often post-Apocalyptic) sci-fi stories where some other commodity or service has supplanted cash or gold as the chief currency.
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Colorado has some of the most novel technology stories for government transformation that I have encountered in my US State-Local Cloud Commission travels.
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In 2011 he published his latest book, Embassytown, and my Forbes colleague Alex Knapp and I are going to be running a chapter-by-chapter book club on the new novel.
In his 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, writer and social critic Tom Wolfe describes a sharp-witted female student who is, on paper, ideally suited for an Ivy League school, yet she finds herself brought down by a destructive social life at a fictional university.
In his 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, writer and social critic Tom Wolfe describes a sharp-witted female student who is, on paper, ideally suited for an Ivy League school, yet she finds herself brought down by a destructive social life at the fictional university she attends.
Next I drove to my favorite Rollerblading location, listening en route to a stand-up comic, a mystery novel, and an Eckhart Tolle lecture.
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