Quiz · How a Novelist Plots a Story

Question 1What is the listening mainly about regarding the novelist?

How she finds publishers for her finished books. How she plans her whole story before writing it. Why she never decides the ending of her stories. How her characters write their own chapters.

Question 2How does the novelist organise her notes about every chapter?

She types them into a computer program. She reads them aloud to trusted friends. She asks her editor to order them. She writes them on small white cards and moves them on the floor.

Question 3Why does the novelist give each character a hard problem to solve?

Because publishers ask for difficult problems. Because she wants to surprise her readers with new endings. Because characters must want something, or the story feels empty. Because it saves many months of difficult work.