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Chargement... A Novel in a Year: From First Page to Last in 52 Weeks (édition 2008)par Louise Doughty (Auteur)
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From the author of APPLE TREE YARD, now a major BBC drama starring Emily Watson Can you write a novel in a year? If you simply sit back and think about the enormity of writing a book, it will seem like a vast and unconquerable task, impossibly daunting. The way to make it less daunting is to break it down into its constituent parts, to do it bit by bit. Over the chapters herein, different aspects of technique are divided up into bite size chunks, the better to aid digestion. The book will look at different aspects of writing, with set exercises to help the reader along in their confidence and technique. It is designed to be read a chapter aweek, with the aim of the fledgling writer having a body of material at the year's end which should form a solid start to their novel. Deeply practical, with sound advice at every stage, A NOVEL IN A YEAR is essential reading for any would-be novelist. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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What this book consists of is 52 short chapters, which were originally published as weekly newspaper columns. Every other week there was a short exercise (so, 26 in all) which encouraged reader participation either by letter or on a dedicated website forum. Apparently there was widespread enthusiasm and involvement, and a great deal of discussion. Essentially a huge online writing support group was formed for this period.
But it doesn't work like that in book form, so I decided to read the book in a month, doing six exercises per week. Taken as having a newspaper column style of writing, it's very well done - light-hearted, with plenty of personal anecdotes, and some gems of good advice thrown in. It's not a guide to writing a novel - the title is perhaps misleading - but has ideas to kick-start creativity and to get a stagnant novel going again. So we write biographies of our characters, think about incidents from the point of view of someone in another country, invent a chapter when someone breaks a thumb, re-write paragraphs without adjectives... and a whole lot more. I didn't think the exercises were necessarily relevant, but pretty much any writing exercise can lead to something more constructive, which is what I found.
I don't know that I learned anything new about the novel-writing process, but I found the book inspiring nonetheless. I found the last few exercises a bit disappointing - looking back, looking forward, noting what I had learned, etc, and didn't do those ones. But the bulk of the book was very readable and helpful, and I would recommend it to anyone who has read umpteen guides to writing, and perhaps started several novels that have not gone anywhere. This is a different kind of approach, and I found it refreshing. ( )