How to Write a Novel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
How to Write a Novel by Anonymous: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 10 original MP3 tracks, 2:40:13 running time and a link to listen.
How to Write a Novel, credited to Anonymous, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of How to Write a Novel by Anonymous. Read in English by Brett W. Downey. I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of characters, the formation of plots, and a host of other points with which I shall deal hereafter. Although no school could turn out novelists to order there is yet enough common material in all art-work to be mapped out in a course of lessons. I shall show that the two great requisites of novel-writing are (1) a good story to tell, and (2) ability to tell it effectively. Briefly stated, my position is this: no teaching can produce "good stories to tell," but it can increase the power of "the telling," and change it from crude and ineffective methods to those which reach the apex of developed art. (Summary from the preface)
Recording facts
- Recording title: How to Write a Novel
- Author credits: Anonymous
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 10
- Listed recording duration: 2:40:13
Catalogue topics
- writing
- characterization
- plot
- how to
Track guide
- 01 - The Object in View — 11:24
- 02 - A Good Story to Tell — 8:39
- 03 - How to Begin — 27:30
- 04 - Characters and Characterisation — 12:47
- 05 - Studies in Literary Technique — 15:14
- 06 - Studies in Literary Technique--Continued — 15:51
- 07 - Pitfalls & The Secret of Style — 18:31
- 08 - How Authors Work — 20:08
- 09 - Is the Subject-Matter of Novels Exhausted — 15:08
- 10 - The Novel v. The Short Story &\; Success: And Some of Its Minor Conditions — 15:00
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