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The difference between professional and amateur novelists often is the author's ability to publish. Many people take up novel writing as a hobby, but the difficulties of completing large scale fictional works of quality prevent the completion of novels. Once authors have completed a novel, they often

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commenting on it, and the novelists' incorporation of their own experiences into works and characters can lead to the author's personal life and identity being associated with a novel's fictional content. For this reason, the environment within which a novelist works and the reception of their novels

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or costumbrismo was active from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, which is considered equivalent to American literary regionalism. It used a realist style to portray the scenes, language, customs and manners of the country the writer was from, especially the lower and

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titled "What is a novelist?"; he says that the novelist's "honesty is bound to the vile stake of his megalomania The work is not simply everything a novelist writes-notebooks, diaries, articles. It is the end result of long labor on an aesthetic projectThe novelist is the sole master of his work. He

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Novelists apply a number of different methods to writing their novels, relying on a variety of approaches to inspire creativity. Some communities actively encourage amateurs to practice writing novels to develop these unique practices, that vary from author to author. For example, the internet-based

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While many novelists compose fiction to satisfy personal desires, novelists and commentators often ascribe a particular social responsibility or role to novel writers. Many authors use such moral imperatives to justify different approaches to novel writing, including activism or different approaches

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writing in 1965 for in her essay "Must the Novelist Crusade?" draws a distinction between novelists who report reality by "taking life as it already exists, not to report it, but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it, and offer it to the reader"

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in his essay "Society, Morality, and the Novel", sees the novelist as needing to "re-create reality in the forms which his personal vision assumes as it plays and struggles with the vivid illusory "eidetic-like" imagery left in the mind's eye by the process of social change." However, Ellison also

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attributes the primary contemporary meaning of "a writer of novels" as first appearing in the 1633 book "East-India Colation" by C. Farewell citing the passage "It beeing a pleasant observation (at a distance) to note the order of their Coaches and Carriages..As if (presented to a Novelist) it had

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says that many authors, especially authors who usually write literary fiction, worry about "the danger that genre is a cul-de-sac" where publishers will only publish similar genre fiction from that author because of reader expectations, "and that once a writer turns into it, he'll never get out."

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In contemporary British and American publishing markets, most authors receive only a small monetary advance before publication of their debut novel; in the rare exceptions when a large print run and high volume of sales are anticipated, the advance can be larger. However, once an author has

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printing bound books for a fee paid by the writer. In these settings, unlike the more traditional publishing industry, activities usually reserved for a publishing house, like the distribution and promotion of the book, become the author's responsibility. The rise of the Internet and

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Historically, because of the amount of leisure time and education required to write novels, most novelists have come from the upper or the educated middle classes. However, working men and women began publishing novels in the twentieth century. This includes in Britain

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First-time novelists of any age often are unable to have their works published, because of a number of reasons reflecting the inexperience of the author and the economic realities of publishers. Often authors must find advocates in the publishing industry, usually

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Novelists are often classified by their national affiliation, suggesting that novels take on a particular character based on the national identity of the authors. In some literature, national identity shapes the self-definition of many novelists. For example, in

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began writing at eleven, and at sixteen completed his first novel, "The Hungarian Lift-Jet", about international arms dealers, "in pencil in a larger-than-foolscap log book". However, he was thirty before he published his first novel, the highly controversial

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recognizes other definitions of novelist, first appearing in the 16th and 17th centuries to refer to either "An innovator (in thought or belief); someone who introduces something new or who favours novelty" or "An inexperienced person; a novice." However, the

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Responding to the difficulty of successfully writing and publishing first novels, especially at a young age, there are a number of awards for young and first time novelists to highlight exceptional works from new and/or young authors (for examples see

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Similarly, because of the conversations brought by feminism, examinations of masculine subjects and an author's performance of "maleness" are a new and increasingly prominent approach critical studies of novels. For example, some academics studying

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or left wing sympathizers, and seen as a "device of revolution". However, the British tradition of working class literature, unlike the Russian and American, was not especially inspired by the Communist Party, but had its roots in the

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point out: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men." It is not a question of the subject matter or political stance of a particular author, but of her

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Novelists often will be assessed in contemporary criticism based on their gender or treatment of gender. Largely, this has to do with the impacts of cultural expectations of gender on the literary market, readership and authorship.

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is his work." The close intimacy of identity with the novelist's work ensures that particular elements, whether for class, gender, sexuality, nationality, race, or place-based identity, will influence the reception of their work.

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Few novelists become literary celebrities or become very wealthy from the sale of their novels alone. Often those authors who are wealthy and successful will produce extremely popular genre fiction. Examples include authors like

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has been described as a "place-defining novelist", credited for defining the western frontier in America consciousness at the beginning of the 20th century while becoming linked as an individual to his depiction of that space.

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Some novelists deliberately write for a working class audience for political ends, profiling "the working classes and working-class life; perhaps with the intention of making propaganda". Such literature, sometimes called

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The position of women in the literary marketplace can change public conversation about novelists and their place within popular culture, leading to debates over sexism. For example, in 2013, American female novelist

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The personal experiences of the novelist will often shape what they write and how readers and critics will interpret their novels. Literary reception has long relied on practices of reading literature through

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as the exception rather than the norm. Other critics and writers defending the merits of genre fiction often point towards King as an example of bridging the gap between popular genres and literary merit.

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established themselves in print, some authors can make steady income as long as they remain productive as writers. Additionally, many novelists, even published ones, will take on outside work, such as

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and were some of the most popular in all of Europe during the subsequent century. Scott's novels were influential in recreating a Scottish identity that the upper-class British society could embrace.

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article titled "The agony of the male novelist" that midlist male novelists are less likely to find success than midlist female novelist, even though men tend to dominate "literary fiction" spaces.

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However, publishing genre novels does not always allow novelist to continue writing outside the genre or within their own interests. In describing the place within the industry, novelist

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in favor of representing a "myriad of impressions" created in experience life. Her definition made in this essay, and developed in others, helped define the literary movement of

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published, but once published they often continue to be published, although very few become literary celebrities, thus gaining prestige or a considerable income from their work.

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by both the public and publishers can be influenced by their demographics or identity. Similarly, some novelists have creative identities derived from their focus on different

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captures the social and local character of a particular region in Britain, focussing on specific features, such as dialect, customs, history, and landscape (also called

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and journalists, whose role is to act as "crusaders" advocating for particular positions, and using their craft as a political tool. Similarly, writing in the 1950s,

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led to an original literature based on the continent's natural elements, mostly epic and foundational. It was strongly influenced by the wars of independence from

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spend considerable time examining how masculinity shapes and effects the works, because of its prominence within fiction from the Victorian period.

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culture in the South has also produced a strong focus by novelists from there on the significance of family, religion, community, the use of the

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Encyclopædia Britannica."Novel." Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 13 April 2013.

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ensures that many genres of novel associated with particular regions often define the reception of the novelists. For example, in writing

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within his work. However, postmodern literary critics often denounce such an approach; the most notable of these critiques comes from

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will try to publish it. The publishing industry requires novels to have accessible profitable markets, thus many novelists will

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Similarly, very few authors start in genre fiction and move to more "literary" publications; Wright describes novelists like

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Novelists come from a variety of backgrounds and social classes, and frequently this shapes the content of their works.

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describes the tensions between the novelist's own identity and the work that the author produces in his essay in

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Both literary critics and novelists question what role novelists play in society and within art. For example,

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Some novelists become intimately linked with a particular place or geographic region and therefore receive a

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in 1984. The success of this novel enabled Banks to become a full-time novelist. Often an important writers'

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directly helping in the creation of French political and social identity in mid-nineteenth century France.

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bin the spoyles of a Tryumph leading Captive, or a preparation to some sad Execution" According to the

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writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to support themselves in this way or write as an

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argues for a representation of life not interested in the exhaustive specific details represented in

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wrote a New York Times editorial challenging Knowledge's categorization of American female novelists

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has made self publishing far less expensive and a realistic way for authors to realize income.

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Novelist is a term derivative from the term "novel" describing the "writer of novels." The

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until later in life. However, many novelists begin writing at a young age. For example,

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Ellison, Ralph (2003) . "Society, Morality and the Novel"". In John F. Callahan (ed.).

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When defining her description of the role of the modernist novelist in the essay "

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Ngrams, the term novelist first appears in the Google Books database in 1521.

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Occasionally, novelists publish as early as their teens. For example,

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are often describe as writing within a particular tradition of

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The novelist is the sole master of his work. He is his work."

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Pocock, D. C. D. (1981-01-01). "Place and the Novelist".

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