HOW TO WRITE A DAMN GOOD NOVEL

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A “DAMN GOOD NOVEL” is serious, and to be exceptional, a novel

must be emotional. A sensational novel encapsulates the accompanying attributes: it centers around a focal character, the hero, who

is confronted with an issue; the difficulty forms into an emergency; the

emergency works through a progression of confusions to a peak; in the

peak the emergency is settled. Books, for example, Ernest Hemingway’s

The Old Man and the Sea, John Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came

in from the Cold, Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Charles

Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame

Bovary are totally written in the emotional structure and are generally damn

great books.

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is an exemplary novel, a finely

made show-stopper, well worth perusing. It isn’t, nonetheless, in the

type of the emotional novel. Nor is James Joyce’s Ulysses, a

sign of 20th century English writing. On the off chance that you wish to

compose like James Joyce or Virginia Woolf and make test,

emblematic, philosophical, or mental books that shun the

emotional structure, this book isn’t for you. Nor is it for you in case you’re

searching for a scholarly study of the customary sensational novel.

This is a how-to book on the craft of the sensational novel and does

not profess to be whatever else.