The Lifecycle of a Novel, Part 2

In ‘Lifecycle of a Novel, Part 1’ I detailed what it took to bring my novel, Exuberance, to conclusion, including the week spent at Varuna, The Writers' House as a result of being shortlisted for the Varuna Awards for Manuscript development. This was 2005 and I had spent the best part of three years nurturing a small army of characters, watching them develop their own personalities, face their demons, reveal their secrets and unfold their lives on the pages of my manuscript.

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