#395 Matt Bell: How To Enjoy Writing Your Novel

My guest today is author and novelist Matt Bell! Today we’re chatting about his latest book Refuse To Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting and revision. He is also the author of multiple novels included Appleseed which was A New York Times Notable Book and he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. I absolutely loved this latest book on how to write and rewrite a novel in three drafts and have been using tools from it as I work on my own future fiction projects. We chat all about novel writing a lot in this one, so I hope you enjoy and you can find a link to Matt’s book below, hope you enjoy.


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  • Check out Refuse To Be Done here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781641293419
  • Buy DISCONNECTED here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781529373127
  • My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon
  • My favourite 2022 reads: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/best-reads-of-2022

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