I am writing my first novel. Hoping to finish it by the end of the year.
what type of novel? genre?
It would be fiction, published as just a book.
how long did it take you to write it? I like fiction I'm an avid non-fiction reader
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book.
The entire genre has been seen as having "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in classical Greece and Rome, in medieval and early modern romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella. (Since the 18th century, the term "novella", or "novelle" in German, has been used in English
and creature are just too numerous and important to ignore". Carter acknowledged the author's note was "absurdly long", justifying it a reaction to not being able to put footnotes throughout the book, unlike in his non-fiction writing. Instead, he appended them to the end of the novel, saying "I don’t think I could have written a novel, as a scholar, without making sure I got my facts right and making sure the reader knew."
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