Sentence examples for Proper novelling from inspiring English sources
I hate proper novels anyway.
Child's first "proper" novel, this retains her illustrator's eye and her totally wacky and matter-of-fact sense of humour.
I deplore the apartheid that has been imposed on fiction writing, so that in shops the "crime books" are segregated from the "proper" novels.
She's trying to write a "proper" novel while churning out genre fiction to pay the bills on a damp cottage and to support her hopeless boyfriend, Christopher.
But it is also a proper novel about human failure, about the price paid (and the public benefits reaped) when part of the human heart is suppressed.
In fact, to write about Calcutta meant risking not writing a proper novel (in terms of plot and character) at all.
When a fiction writer publishes a collection of stories, are we to feel cheated of a proper novel or appreciative of the parade of characters, plot lines and settings placed before us?
It still didn't feel like a "proper" novel, though; the whole thing had been handwritten in noodle-spattered Vietnamese exercise books and then typed up in internet cafés beside schoolboys playing Street Fighter.
His first "proper" novel American Gods is currently in production as a TV series and it was announced this week that his children's book, Fortunately, The Milk, is to be filmed with Johnny Depp and director Edgar Wright.
When you're working on a book, it looks so unprofessional – just scribbles in a notepad or words on a computer screen – so I couldn't wait to see My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece as a proper novel.
