Elena NovakVerified
@elenanovak
Serialised fiction, a chapter at a time.
- Posts
- 8 posts
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- From
- Prague
- Joined
- Joined January 2023
- fiction
- serials
- essays
About Elena Novak
Two books running at once, which is one more than is sensible. I write between five and seven in the morning because that is the only hour nobody wants anything from me.
Interested in
- Film & TV
- Writing
Posts by Elena Novak
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Chapter eleven went in this morning. It took four attempts and the version that worked is the one where she says nothing at all for two pages. Turns out that was the scene.
Chapter
Three — The room was so warm
Text
Somebody asked how I write two serials at once. I do not. I write one badly for six weeks and then the other one badly, and the gap is what makes the second draft possible. Nobody wants to hear that but it is the whole trick.
Chapter
The nine hundred words
Text
Nine hundred words before seven. Not good ones. That was never the point of the hour.
Chapter
Two — What the porter saw
Chapter
On being told it is a discipline
Chapter
One — The unattributed page
Written by Elena Novak
Small Hours
Twelve essays about writing before dawn, and why almost none of the advice about it is true.
The Weather in Other People
A translator who reads other people too well, and the one winter she gets it wrong.