Novel Matters

Mark Twain once said that a classic was “something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read .” I guess English t...

As Katy points out in Wednesday's post, Elizabeth George and Elmore Leonard -- and many other experts on the writing craft -- opine that...

A writer learns early that her manuscript has scant seconds to convince an editor of its merits. I've watched hopeful new authors at con...

We'd like to draw your attention to a new feature to the blog--"search this blog" function has been added to Novel Matters to ...

The story and the characters for the novel I’m beginning to write are solid in my mind. The plot is amorphous but like a blessing-river, has...

I interrupt our regularly scheduled discussion of Anne Lamott's chapter, "Dialogue" to skip ahead. Such is the power of being ...

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