Writing Fiction & Poetry : Writing Techniques for Novels

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Uploaded by on Oct 20, 2008

Novel writing techniques vary from writer to writer, but outlines are typically helpful, as are revision sessions of large bodies of work. Discover a personal writing process that gets the job done with tips from a published author and English professor in this free video on writing.

Expert: David M. Harris
Bio: David M. Harris has taught English at Vanderbilt University and elsewhere.
Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge

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  • What are you doing usually around Christmas?

    I have some suspicions :)

  • The real work is not in writing it's in the revising and finding the gems that are buried in that awful first draft.

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  • thanks for this video... it taught me a lot..

  • This guy is in comparison with the great creators of the finest literature. He is cool on many levels, intellectually and comparatively ;)

  • "If you end up writing a load of crap-" WHOA! Language, Santa!

  • OMG I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING! I LOVE HIS PINK OUTFIT! :D

  • I think I love you. Can you be my grandpa????

    Haha! Just kidding! :D

    But really, can I be your apprentice?????

  • if they wind up being short stories , make a book out of that , with various short stories .

  • i love your many videos they are very helpful thanks

  • Do you think a writer can "force" a story to be novel-length or do you think some stories are meant to be short stories and some are meant to grow into a novel?

    A writer with little experience may not know how to judge if his/her idea can fill a novel-length work.

  • This video has only 1 dislike. Says it all really. :D

  • Great tips! I'm trying to write a novel, and I don't have an outline and I don't really want one, but I love the idea of making an outline of the stuff that's all ready written! So I'm going to go back through my 50 pages and make one! Thanks! :)

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