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Many people at some point in their lives decide they want to write a novel. Others make it their life goal. Here are some how-to's to fulfill that goal

Even after blocking off time to write and finding someone to hold them accountable, many first-time writers still never see the finish line.

Defining your writing method or trying a new approach will help new authors write a great story. Understanding technique enables writers to accomplish their goals.

Most writers, both experienced and unskilled, view setting as merely the time and place in which their story takes place, but this could not be further from the truth.

Writing a novel is exhilarating, cathartic, and satisfying. Knowing the most common errors in starting a novel will help avoid disaster later.

The second part of an interview with South African crime writer, Peter Church about his first novel Dark Video.

The first of two articles interviewing South African crime writer, Peter Church, about his novel Dark Video

Young writers would be well advised to learn and practice the basic mechanics of working with a manuscript. There are certain rules that must be followed to succeed.

The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a novel during the month of November. Why do tens of thousands of writers participate every year and how do they make it?

It doesn't matter how well a novel is plotted or how exciting the action is if the dialogue is flat or forced. Learning to write dialogue is a major challenge.

Built upon the practice of yoga, Laraine Herring offers insight and exercises to help writers find and embody their authentic voice.

George Shuman has been a police detective and a resort executive, but his favorite career is spinning tales in the Sherry Moore mystery series.

Life and works of German author Erich Maria Remarque, best known for antiwar novels.

Never reaching the celebrity of Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut remains one of America's great writers.

Sherry Moore is blind, but has the singular ability to read the last 18 seconds of a person's thoughts. Her talent is helpful to the police, but it's driving her mad.

Alden Nowlan escaped Nova Scotia's poverty and hopelessness, but his best poems remained rooted in the region's desolation and its pitiless people.

Universal and Illumination Entertainment are adapting Ricky Gervais bestselling children's book Flanimals for the big screen.

Daniel Kalla, a Canadian native, is an emergency room physician and fiction writer. Kalla was member of the regional SARS Response Taskforce.

When creating characters it never hurts the author to be inspired by their lives. In doing this, it makes the characters more relatable and the novel easier to write.

While some authors find inspiration for their horror novels from other writers, films, TV-shows and the news, some authors are inspired by events they have experienced.

Captains and the Kings is an an amazing story of an Irish immigrant who discovers the dark side of America and himself.

A great resource for new and veteran writers to sharpen their basic tools and sense of style.

Debut novelist Allie Spencer talks about breaking into the rom/com market, writing for Little Black Dress and why it's never the wrong time to start writing.

Not all authors who write about Great Britain are actually British. These three "Great Pretenders" would fool even the most discerning reader.

Mamet accentuates a stark and lonely existence for his main characters. The village forms the backdrop which contains the separate worlds of its characters.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of 20th-century greatest American writers during the Roaring Twenties or Age of Jazz, The Great Gatsby fame.

The North West Regional Co-Ordinator of the British Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Stephanie Williams and her alter-ego Boo Irwin talk to Suite 101.

Brief profile of the life and works of American writer James Baldwin, famous for Go Tell It on the Mountain, his first novel.

This French writer and practitioner of realism, is more commonly known by his pen name Stendhal and has a syndrome named after him.

Are you struggling to motivivate your high school students to write their next essay? Solving this problem may be easier than you think. Here are simple suggestions.

Writing a novel requires an idea, the right words, and something extra. Writer Michael W. Sherer shares the secrets of his approach to writing, from idea to execution.

The author talks about the art of storytelling and not submitting to genre.

Confessions of a Shoaholic is a delightful chick-lit novel featuring hilarious situations and a heroine with a heart of gold.

With a doctorate in Medieval Literature, experience as a classic rock band leader, and a writer of mystery novels, Peggy Ehrhart could be called Renaissance woman.

J. K. Toole wrote two books in his lifetime, but tragically committed suicide before either saw publication. Thanks to his mother, millions of readers now enjoy his work.

The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder is a sweet tale of healing, but Rebecca Wells' latest novel may not be what readers are expecting

With the publication of 'The Mentor' and 'The Judas', the young British novelist, Steve Jackson, has put danger back into spy fiction.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a prolific Victorian novelist and achieved much success as a writer. Two of her greatest novels are Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd.

Ken Loach's unsurpassed film Riff Raff is a remarkable emotional roller-coaster, which launched the careers of both Robert Carlyle and Ricky Tomlinson.

Writing a novel requires an idea, the right words, and something extra. Writer Jean Henry Mead shares the secrets of her approach to writing, from idea to execution.

'Dear John' by Nicholas Sparks is a story of love, relationships and human emotions.