Writing a Novel : Bring Your Ideas To Life The Faber Academy Way

Author: Skinner, Richard

Creative writing & creative writing guides

Published on 2 August 2018 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 224 pages
197 x 155 x 16 | 194g

A novel is a relationship, a place outside of time where both reader and writer are challenged and validated, stretched and rewarded. Richard Skinner believes it is your duty as a novelist to bring your whole self to the page; to find your story, not force it; to meet your reader in a spirit of openness. In Writing a Novel he offers up frameworks, strategies and stimuli to help you meet that duty, drawingon his deep experience as one of the UK's leading creative writing teachers. He covers the essentials - narrators, character, setting - with charm and rigour. But Writing a Novel is not a set of instructions: it is a way of thinking, a conversation, a relationship in itself.