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.
Indeed, these days a cynical young playwright might say that if you want to see your work on stage, write the novel first.
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.
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.
Mike Flynn, a current practitioner in the genre, and no slouch when it comes to the history of medieval science, would be my candidate to write the novel on Grosseteste.
After you lose 20 pounds, get in shape, polish up your high-school French, and write that novel, you may get around to pursuing some self-help regimen that will eliminate this flaw from your personality.
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.
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.
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.
Of course, if your ambition is to write the Great American Novel, I wish you luck.
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They wanted me to follow in the footsteps of Mailer, Capote, Roth and Oates to write the Great American Novel.
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And he said yeah, every novel you write you say that, but you know it's like having children, really.
Some came to make a fortune, others to write the great American novel.
He couldn't imagine how anyone survived who didn't have a novel to write.
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However, creative block is not limited to aspiring and professional writers who are trying to craft their next article on deadline or write The Great American Novel.
Armed with this advice you may now go away and write the great epic novel of the 21st century, or at the very least stop boring your mates at parties.
Boyd also made headlines last week when he was offered the chance to write the next James Bond novel.
His life ambition was to write the "Great American novel" and although this ambition went unrealized, it wasn't for want of trying.
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