
Tim Lott, author of 'Yes! No! But Wait! - The One Thing You Need to Know to Write a Novel' - Award-winner discusses why spaces don't matter, why plot is everything and dealing with guilt
Writer's Routine
How to Write a Novel
The big question that most writers have that torments them is simply this what happens next. And my mission if you like in writing this book was to help them with that. I tend to think that characters develop much more organically than plots do. You could think of a character driven story as merely an internal plot. That's all we mean by character and that's still a plot. It's the beginning, middle and end where they start off as a character and where they end up as a character.
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