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William Ryan's Guide to How to Write

The Writing Life

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Why It's So Important in a Novel

One of the most important things in a novel is my menton and that feeling that you're going towards a place and towards the end. You want er you want to make sure that pretty much every word in the novel er has some kind of prepose in the overall struction. Now, if an event happens, youa always encouraging people too, to not only think about things from the central character point of view, but to think about it from the other characters as well. So they have objectives, and they have motivations, and when something happens, they have reactions. And you can't just happen nodding their head as though yno, nothing has happened,. bu when something quite important

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