Federle made a vow a week before he turned 30 to write a novel.
"You don't want to write a novel, " says Hallie Crawford, a career coach in Atlanta.
As the youngest of three sisters, I'd always wanted to write a novel about such relationships.
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The friend I mentioned above gave me permission to write a novel loosely based on her life.
Ms. PROSE: Well, I suppose my question would be why you think you have to write a novel?
In 1961, the writer began to write a novel about curing juvenile delinquency.
Kelman was an English major who once struggled to write a novel.
Lying around in my caftan soaking up the sun, I might feel suddenly inspired to write a novel or an opera, or cure the global economic crisis.
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As any author knows, the best way to enrage your publisher and offend your critics is to write a novel that differs wildly from your previous ones.
Someday even I could write a novel deemed "the most outstanding work in an ideal direction, " as Alfred Nobel's 1895 will read about the criteria for the prize.
Gil is a commercially successful Hollywood screenwriter who considers himself a hack and is struggling to write a novel, a dubious-sounding story about a man who lives in the past.
And nobody has ever wanted to write a novel and settled for making their story into comics: for one thing, it just takes too damn long to draw something when you could write it instead.
He began to write a novel, set during Brazil's hosting of the World Cup in 2014, in which public money was yet again disappearing into private pockets, and white-elephant stadiums were rising across the land.
We have a real estate tycoon who still thinks he can be president, and New York remains a great place to write a first novel, get discovered in a one-act play, or play guitar outside in your underpants.
Maybe I wanted to write a screenplay or a fiction novel or a business book.
Bulgari's Francesco Trapani took this competition a step further in 2001 when he commissioned Fay Weldon, a well-regarded British novelist, to write The Bulgari Connection, a novel about a woman jailed for trying to run over her ex-husband's new wife.
He couldn't imagine how anyone survived who didn't have a novel to write.
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And it occurs to me that the novel I'd most love to write would be a 21st-century update of Achebe's final novel, "Anthills of the Savannah" (1987).
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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Some came to make a fortune, others to write the great American novel.
Mr. Howey continued to write and self-publish new books, including a zombie novel and prequels to "Wool" that explore how and why the silos were built.
No, but it gave me the confidence I needed to write my novel with authority and to immerse the reader in a criminal investigation and trial.
The Conan Doyle estate commissioned accomplished novelist Caleb Carr to write a Sherlock Holmes short story, and it morphed into this superb novel.
He embraces the busiest borough but shows it through the nostalgic prism (in black-and-white and set to the strains of Gershwin) of his protagonist and alter ego, Isaac Davis, a prosperous TV writer who yearns to break free and write his novel.
Fifty-four years ago today, on March 4, 1952, Mr. Hemingway wrote his publisher that he had just finished a short novel that was, quote, The best I can write ever for all of my life.
Publisher Tim Sanders of Net Minds persuaded him to write a book linked to Jobs, even though Bushnell had already finished writing a science fiction novel about a video game hatched through nanotechnology in 2071.
Shaw hedge fund, publishes pulp fiction, half of it reprints from decades ago and half of it new, including a novel by Stephen King, who is himself a fan of pulps and volunteered to write a book for Hard Case even though he could've dealt with a big house for a lot more money.
Indeed, these days a cynical young playwright might say that if you want to see your work on stage, write the novel first.
But last year he signed a two-book deal with Twelve, an imprint of Hachette, to write his story and hand in another novel.
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