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Though some historical novels, such as Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1865–69), are of the highest artistic quality, many of them are written to mediocre standards. One type of historical novel is the purely escapist costume romance, which, making no pretense to historicity, uses a setting...
There are a few notable classics that are written as epistolary novels. Below are a few. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (1818) The story unfolds through letters exchanged, as well as the personal accounts of Dr. Frankenstein and the monster he creates. Dracula, by Bram Stoker (1897) Stoker’...
Choose a process that works for everyone. With a collaboration, the How is almost as important as the What. You have to find a process that works for all your schedules and writing habits. Our book is written as a series of emails by seven different characters. We each ran a couple ...
Step 4: Expand your idea into a plot. True Pantsers — yes, even some bestselling novelists — don’t plot. Here’s the downside: Like me, you might love being a Pantser and writing as a process of discovery, BUT — even we non-Outliners need some modicum of structure. ...
The novel can, therefore, be considered a work of imagination that is grounded in reality. On the other hand, during the Middle Ages a popular literary form was the romance, a type of tale that describes the adventures, both natural and supernatural, of such figures of legend as the ...
John May's perfectly imagined novel brings New York's giddy pre-Civil War social scene into brilliant focus as it unfolds the spellbinding story of a doomed man and the great love that sealed his fate. By the end of what should have been his crowning year, Edgar Poe was reviled by the...
Epistolary novel, a novel told through the medium of letters written by one or more of the characters. Originating with Samuel Richardson’s Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), the story of a servant girl’s victorious struggle against her master’s atte