Writing a Novel

Character Development

 

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The Writing It Part

Editing

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About the Author

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Want to learn how to write a novel?

The two best ways to learn are:

  • to study the Elements of a Novel and 

  • to write your own.

The third best way is to experience the steps someone else stumbled through while writing one

This site covers two of these ways to help you find the third.  

 

 

Elements of a Novel

About my Book

 

The Web's most concise Novel Writing Guide. Featuring writing articles, writing tips and writing tools.

Experience a Novel being born. Featuring the popular excerpts & now famous Blog of Peder Hill's emerging novel.

 


 
Internal & External Conflict
The Synopsis

 

Conflict is the essence of drama. Got none? Then you got none.

Dreaming Underwater: a novel born of our collective hunger for God. Read the novel's synopsis.

 
 


 
Character Arcs 
The Novel's Raw Excerpts
 

Character Development drives a story's Conflict. 

The popular raw excerpts that you may have heard about.

 
 


 
Story Structure & Plot
Check the Novel's Progress
 

The simplest building blocks of a good story are found in...

Check the total pages, total words, words per hour and % written.

 
 


 
Writing Effective Dialogue
The Now Famous Blog
 

Writing effective dialogue is often what distinguishes the professional writer from...

A Blog about novel writing and love.

 
 


 
The Writing It Part
About the Author
 

Tips and stories on how to actually get on with writing it.

Peder Hill was born in Arkansas in 1968, from there...

 
 


 
Editing a Novel
Publishing Alert
 

The danger of editing is that you can get caught up...

Interested in reading the novel? Get a one time Publishing Alert.

 

 
 


 
Good Writing Links
 

Links to good novel writing articles and resources.

   

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