How Not to Write a Novel: Essays on a Novelist’s Relationship to Creative Practice, Artistic Integrity, and a Novel that Resisted Being Written
Liverpool John Moores University 2026 A Jones
This thesis is the record of a novelist in the process of not being able to write a novel. What began as an attempt to complete a draft of a novel became instead a multi-genre text and an autocriticism in which a fiction writer’s process becomes the subject of study at the same time it generates a novel work of creative writing. This took what was once to have been a two-part thesis comprising...