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Old 4th February 2008, 03:18 PM   #11 (permalink)
The Curious Orange
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Re: novel structure

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Originally Posted by JFLewis View Post
I'd suggest reading Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maas. It was after reading that book that I finished my third novel... it also turned out to be my first professional sale.
---Jeremy
That's one of the books I've got in my stack. It is very good, but I've struggled to apply a lot of what he suggests.

I think the problem is that I write because it's fun. If I start writing in the way some of these books suggest, then it becomes work.
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