Lives of Girls and Women (1971) was conceived as a novel but developed into a series of interrelated coming-of-age stories.
Thereafter, A Single Man was conceived as a novel about an English woman, and modelled on Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (No 50 in this series), which Isherwood once described as "one of the most truly beautiful novels or prose poems or whatever that I have ever read".
Evolution of a publication is not conceived as a novel publication to be created, evaluated, and published anew (with significant loss of time for the community), but rather as the evolution of an existing MSKO, possibly by different authors, with each able to claim credit and responsibility for their contribution.
Chesterton conceived of a novel nested in "vast valleys with sloping sides, like those along which the ancient White Horses of Wessex are scrawled along the flanks of the hills".
During his numerous buggy rides between the two towns, he first began to conceive of a novel form of motorized transportation.
But when Ang Lee set out to adapt Yann Martel's acclaimed novel, he conceived an intricate plan for extensive visual effects.
I didn't set out to write a book, but when I realised that the hundreds of single-spaced pages addressed to Dick ___ during those months might actually be research material, I conceived the novel as a conte, a narrative, a cautionary tale or fable.
I'm also reading the letters of Cesare Pavese and Pasolini's "Teorema," which was conceived both as a novel and a film.
In 1939, after he had published two more books, Simon & Schuster published "Conceived in Liberty," a novel about Valley Forge, which has sold about a million copies and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
