• The Novel That Norman Mailer Didn’t Write (2013) https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-novel-that-norman-mailer-didnt-write 5 comments 1/3/2020
• Message stuck in Kafka queue for months delivered, writes bestselling novel https://nareal.substack.com/p/message-stuck-in-kafka-queue-for 4 comments 5/4/2025
• How to write a novel using the snowflake method (2013) https://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/ 47 comments 3/2/2024

• Novel Writing in Emacs (a few tips/tricks) https://christopherfin.com/writing/emacs-writing.html 16 comments 28/5/2022 emacs
• Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels http://nautil.us/issue/95/escape/why-computers-will-never-write-good-novels 9 comments 12/2/2021 truereddit
• Why Do So Many Physicists Write Crime Novels? https://crimereads.com/why-do-so-many-physicists-write-crime-novels/ 3 comments 1/8/2020 books
• Dan Brown is writing another Da Vinci Code novel http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/28/13100392/dan-brown-writing-da-vinci-code-origin-novel 175 comments 29/9/2016 books
• Tamil Author Bullied For Days By Hindu Activists For Controversial Novel Gives Up Writing http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/01/13/perumal-murugan_n_6461194.html 142 comments 13/1/2015 india
• "How To Write A Shitty Young Adult Novel" http://postgradproblems.com/how-to-write-a-shitty-young-adult-novel/ 915 comments 19/11/2014 books
• National Novel Writing Month is coming... http://www.nanowrimo.org/ 18 comments 4/10/2011 books
• Write a Novel in One Year http://mind-blitz.com/archives/411 10 comments 15/1/2011 reddit.com
• What are the oldest major languages that we could still write a modern novel in? https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/c9v05w/what_are_the_oldest_major_languages_that_we_could/ 45 comments 6/7/2019 linguistics
• I’m Reyna Marder Gentin and I’m here to answer all your questions about writing a novel! http://reynamardergentin.com/ 47 comments 11/12/2018 books
• If I write a novel during my full-time job, does the company have rights over it? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/5l8nw1/if_i_write_a_novel_during_my_fulltime_job_does/ 17 comments 31/12/2016 cscareerquestions
• To Write Software, Read Novels http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/opinion/sunday/to-write-software-read-novels.html 3 comments 22/5/2016 books
• Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield wrote his first novel "The Apollo Murders" during lockdown in the covid-19 pandemic. Writing about an alternative version of 1973 with Apollo 18 that was cancelled in reality, Hadfield is careful to only include events that could have actually happened https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133550-400-the-apollo-murders-review-chris-hadfields-novel-is-a-space-thriller/ 28 comments 29/5/2022 space
• Crime author who killed people and used own murders to write novels sentenced to death https://www.newsweek.com/crime-writer-who-killed-people-and-used-own-murders-write-novels-sentenced-1049955 243 comments 5/8/2018 nottheonion
• Crime Author Who Killed People and Used Own Murders to Write Novels Sentenced to Death https://www.newsweek.com/crime-writer-who-killed-people-and-used-own-murders-write-novels-sentenced-1049955 3 comments 2/8/2018 nottheonion
• Crime Author Who Killed People and Used Own Murders to Write Novels Sentenced to Death https://www.newsweek.com/crime-writer-who-killed-people-and-used-own-murders-write-novels-sentenced-1049955?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true 349 comments 1/8/2018 nottheonion
• Dan Brown is writing a YA edition of his first bestselling novel. Do teens feel pleased or patronized by the news? http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/18/do-teens-really-need-a-special-ya-version-of-dan-browns-the-da-vinci-code 84 comments 18/5/2016 books
• This is a novel I wrote. Took me several years to write and it's free. Feedback welcome. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/126691/TheMattZanderJournals.pdf 42 comments 6/1/2011 books
• Better than brainstorming: brain*writing* -- brainstorming doesn't work because of "social loafing," "evaluation apprehension," groupthink -- brain*writing* works better -- many more novel ideas in an experimental task http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/03/04/brainstorming-drools-brainwriting-rules/ 2 comments 21/8/2009 productivity
• CIA Interrogator: At Time of U.S. Invasion, Saddam Hussein Was Focused on Writing Novel, Not WMDs https://democracynow.org/2016/12/28/cia_interrogator_at_time_of_us 18 comments 29/12/2016 worldnews
• Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'... His parents expected him to get a job with Mitsubishi. Instead Haruki Murakami married young, bought a jazz bar and began to write. As his new novel 1Q84 is published, Emma Brockes goes to Hawaii to meet the enigmatic author http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/14/haruki-murakami-1q84 19 comments 16/10/2011 books
• How to Write a Great Novel. From writing in the bathroom (Junot Díaz) to dressing in character (Nicholson Baker), 11 top authors share their methods for getting the story on the page http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703740004574513463106012106.html#printMode 3 comments 6/11/2009 books
• J K Rowling: life after Harry Potter. She was the first person to become a billionaire from writing novels. But since the last Potter came out in 2007, she has kept herself busy - and confounded expectations. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/11371823/J-K-Rowling-life-after-Harry-Potter.html 757 comments 2/2/2015 books
• Kazuo Ishiguro on The Remains of the Day – The author recalls the four-week writing ‘crash’ and the surprising inspirations behind his Booker-winning novel. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/06/kazuo-ishiguro-the-remains-of-the-day-guardian-book-club 19 comments 6/12/2014 books
• I found this while writing a paper of The Sound and the Fury: a hypertext of the novel, rearrangeable in chronological order or by speaker. http://drc.usask.ca/projects/faulkner/ 8 comments 17/4/2011 books
• Jane Austen couldn't spell, had no grasp of punctuation, & her writing betrayed an accent straight out of The Archers - Analysis of Austen's handwritten letters & manuscripts reveal that her finished novels owed as much to the intervention of her editor as to the genius of the author http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/8080832/Jane-Austens-famous-prose-may-not-be-hers-after-all.html 10 comments 23/10/2010 books
• WTF - You can patent business models now? Like legal counseling, novel-writing, tax-planning, etc?! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/re-bilksi-supreme-court-takes-business-method-pate 4 comments 14/10/2009 reddit.com
• Stacey Abrams Is the Author of Eight Unapologetically Hot Romance Novels — Abrams has demonstrated, in her writing and her political career, a kind of ruthless unwillingness to be shamed. https://www.glamour.com/story/stacey-abrams-is-a-published-romance-novelist-and-her-books-are-fabulous 65 comments 4/12/2020 politics
• Harper Lee planned to write her own true crime novel about an Alabama preacher accused of multiple murders. New evidence reveals that her perfectionism, drinking, and aversion to fame got in the way. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/04/and-the-missing-briefcase-the-real-story-behind-harper-lees-lost-true-book 446 comments 4/5/2019 books
• I Used to Write Novels. Then Trump Rendered Fiction Redundant: The president is a fiction writer run amok, the hero of his own impermeable drama. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/richard-north-patterson-i-quit-novels-cover-trump/585901/ 69 comments 31/3/2019 politics
• South African writer K Sello Duiker committed suicide at 30 after writing 2 fantastic novels. He would have been 43 today. Here's an excerpt from his masterpiece Thirteen Cents https://readinglist.click/2017/04/13/read-an-excerpt-from-k-sello-duikers-thirteen-cents/ 15 comments 13/4/2017 books
• Man Booker winner's debut novel rejected nearly 80 times - Jamaican author Marlon James says he nearly gave up writing after his first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was rejected 78 times by publishers. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/14/man-booker-prize-marlon-james-debut-novel-rejected-nearly-80-times 49 comments 14/10/2015 books
• Haruki Murakami, age 29, was sitting in the outfield at his local baseball stadium, drinking a beer, when a batter hit a double. It was a normal-­enough play, but as the ball flew through the air, an epiphany struck Murakami. He realized, suddenly, that he could write a novel. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/magazine/the-fierce-imagination-of-haruki-murakami.html 74 comments 21/10/2011 books
• High School Teacher Writes Steamy Romance Novels - Parents Start a Witch Hunt http://www.wnep.com/wnep-sny-parents-buranich-english-teacher-writes-racy-novels-20110426,0,4057307.story 78 comments 27/4/2011 books
• Vonnegut survived being captured by the Nazis and the suicide of his mother to write some of the funniest, darkest novels of our time, but it took George W. Bush to break him http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11123162/kurt_vonnegut_says_this_is_the_end_of_the_world/1 30 comments 23/9/2006 reddit.com
• Glenn Beck's new dystopian novel describes a terrifying future tyrannical government that forces people to ride bikes and feed squirrels. Problem is - he didn't write one word of it. http://www.salon.com/2012/11/19/i_got_duped_by_glenn_beck/?source=newsletter 123 comments 20/11/2012 politics
• Glenn Beck writes his fantasy in a novel: Story depicts the rise of a citizen’s organization called the Founders Keepers, What follows is “a battle and a civil war, and life is upside-down planetwide" http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2010/04/beck_novel_depicts_america_sli.html 30 comments 5/4/2010 politics