Book description
You are a writer and you have a killer book idea. When your project
starts to take off you will find yourself managing a writhing tangle of
ideas, possibilities and potential potholes. How do you turn your
inspiration into a finished novel? Writing a User's Manual offers
practical insight into the processes that go into writing a novel, from
planning to story development, research to revision and, finally,
delivery in a form which will catch the eye of an agent or publisher.
David Hewson, a highly productive and successful writer of popular
fiction with more than sixteen novels in print in twenty or so
languages, shows how to manage the day to day process of writing.
Writers will learn how to get the best out of software and novel writing
packages such as Scrivener, which help you view your novel not as one
piece of text, but as individual linked scenes, each with their own
statistics, notes and place within the novel structure. As you write,
you will need to assemble the main building blocks to underpin your
artistry : story structure; genre - and how that affects what you write;
point of view; past, present or future tense; software for keeping a
book journal to manage your ideas, research and outlining; organization
and more. The advice contained in this book could mean the difference
between finishing your novel, and a never-ending work in progress. An
essential tool for writers of all kinds. Foreword by Lee Child. avid
Hewson is a prolific and talented thriller writer with a large fanbase.
He is well regarded by peers and critics, his Italian-based thrillers
are published in dozens of languages and the film rights to the entire
Nic Costa series (described by Lee Child as 'terrific') have now been
sold. He is now writing the novel versions of the BAFTA award-winning
Danish crime drama The Killing.
