I am in the middle of a novel, progressing sluggishly, writing and erasing.
Meanwhile, the Harpooners for this is a sports novel!—progress through a baseball season that looks like it could take them all the way to the regional championship and perhaps farther still.
In his computer is a novel in progress, set during the Revolutionary War.
But always before when I was discussing a novel in progress, my listeners observed a certain decorum.
It's true, as well, that a novel in progress can come to feel overwhelming and burdensome.
In a chapter of a novel in progress, the main character lists a series of observations about the world, including the President.
Despite the diversity of modes, a certain coherence emerges, as though the images were scenes from a novel in progress (Johnson).
MIL: You have a novel in progress that is rumoured to be about oil spills and is called "Satin Island" Is it about the United States?
The black one describes Rhodesia, where she grew up, the red her Communist party associations, the blue is her personal journal and the yellow is a novel in progress about all of her other lives.
The youngest of the women chosen, Helen Oyeyemi, is 28 and has already published four novels and two plays, and several are 39, among them Sarah Hall, who contributed an excerpt from a novel in progress that takes place partly on a wolf preserve in Idaho and partly in her native Lake District in the north of England.
