Before finding his niche in Middle Eastern detective thrillers, Sussman made his first foray into novel writing down quite a different path.
Egyptian writers like Mahfouz had attempted novel writing, but it was he who mastered it and brought it to maturity in the Arabic language.
The author recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal about novel writing's black magic, the ordeal her hometown went through this past week and the books she reads when nobody's looking.
For thirteen years, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, has challenged individuals of all ages to get their ideas out on paper or on a Word document. 50, 000 words is the golden number and goal to creating a novel.
I'm a strong advocate of creating a lengthy outline of a novel before writing a single word of the prose.
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.
For me the most interesting aspect is the act of creativity itself, how a novel piece of writing emerges or a new insight into science takes place.
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.
He thought about writing a novel but wasn't sure he was up to the challenge.
Others find joy in painting, or drumming, or writing a novel, origami, scrapbooking, and the list goes on.
When she had 1, 500 pages of transmissions, she started writing the novel.
The novel, whose innovative writing changed the future of literature, has been taught in colleges and universities for decades, providing Scribner constant revenue.
He assured MPs there would not be a "DC Confidential 2" or a "PCC Confidential" but he was thinking of writing a novel.
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?
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 generally devoted only about a week and a half to writing a novel, a practice that, again, was good for his bank account and bad for his reputation.
He accuses her of sabotaging his novel in progress by writing her own version of her mental breakdown, and tells her she can't write any fiction that deals with psychiatric matters.
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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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.
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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In addition, I am writing my first novel and working on two other books.
If you're writing a serialized novel about a yoga detective, it's best not to take the process too seriously.
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He has even found the time to start writing a fictional novel - what else, but a medical techno-thriller.
She has lived in eight countries, speaks eight languages and currently splits her time between London and New York while writing her third novel.
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