How To Write Your First Novel

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Let best-selling novelist Sophie King guide you through the whole process of writing your first novel and getting it published.

This revised edition takes aspiring novelists through the steps of writing a novel, from finding that initial idea, to keeping the plot going and crafting the perfect ending. With helpful exercises in each chapter you will learn how to:

- Develop a brilliant idea for your first novel

- Create characters that will make your novel come alive

- Plot your novel so that your readers simply have to turn the page

- Unravel the mysteries of viewpoint

- Create realistic dialogue and settings so your readers feel they are there

- Find your own voice.

- Most importantly, the book includes tips and advice on how to get published.

This new edition also includes a ten step guide to revision so that you can polish your novel to be the best it can be.

Reviews

"The advice all comes from Sophie's own experience, and is therefore totally practical." "Writing m"agazine"

Author Bio

Sophie King is the author of best-selling novels The School Run, The Supper Club and The Wedding Party. She also writes under the pen-name of Janey Fraser. Sophie is an active creative writing tutor and attends many of the annual writing conferences as a speaker, including the Matera Women's Fiction Festival in Italy. In 2013 she was elected a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Exeter.