We are in thrall to the narrative of selves that do not really exist in the way we imagine, a fabrication in which most novel-writing connives.
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This approach has yielded indifferent results in more high-brow pursuits -- recent attempts in collaborative novel-writing have largely failed -- but the advertising world has already embraced similar interactivity.
In his capacity as a specialist of Arab culture and writer, Mr Coelho Alves has inspired many Portuguese and Spanish authors in diverse fields including film, television, all performing arts, novel-writing and poetry.
She might have written the real man's biography, except that her trade is novel-writing and Cromwell is, as she says, "unbiographicable": We know a great deal about Cromwell the public man, mainly because his papers were seized and preserved before his execution.
Glasberg said a television network had obtained a copy of a novel Hatfill was writing -- about biological warfare -- that could have only come from the scientist's computer, which federal authorities have confiscated.
Andrew McCarthy plays David, an American reporter and would-be fiction writer secretly writing a novel on the Red Brigades while working for an English-language newspaper in Rome.
He has even found the time to start writing a fictional novel - what else, but a medical techno-thriller.
Capitol Police learned from Wicker's staff that Curtis had sent similar messages to the senator and that Curtis had posted on his blog in 2010 that he was writing a novel about black-market body parts titled "Missing Pieces, " the affidavit says.
Award-winning author Hilary Mantel has begun writing a sequel to her 2009 Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall.
"Pendennis" follows "Pen" through his West Country upbringing to his debt-bilking sojourn at "Oxbridge University" (Thackeray himself spent five unproductive terms at Cambridge), his life as a literary man about town in the London of the early 1840s, his writing of a best-selling novel called "Walter Lorraine, " and his eventual marriage to his milksop cousin Laura.
Even before signing the contract for my "yoga detective" novel "Downward-Facing Death, " I needed to start writing.
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This Fourth of July, I will be flying back to the United States, from England, after a three-week research trip for a novel I am about to begin writing.
In Key West, he told about writing "Morality Play, " a novel set in 14th-century England, about a traveling troupe of players that put on Bible plays.
I've got a few really good ideas for novel-length works, but I mean I'm finding the transition from writing short stories to writing something longer just increasably(ph) difficult.
In a deviation from the book that amounts to a calumny against literary history, Nick, the author's surrogate, is discovered in a psychiatric hospital where, as an aging alcoholic, he struggles to comprehend the vanished figure at the center of the long-ago story, and finally completes his treatment by writing the novel.
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You learn to write by writing, and writing a novel (counting the time for research and working out the back-story on all the main characters) usually takes about two years.
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Does a woman writing a novel specifically for women automatically get pigeonholed into a marketing category with a pastel-colored cover featuring poodles, high heels and shopping bags?
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