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A god who builds whole worlds, then murders their favorite characters for the plot.
means A person who writes novels — long works of fiction that build characters and plots across many pages.
from From "novel," which traces to the Italian novella, "a new little story" — feminine of novello, "new," from Latin novus. The word entered English for the long fictional form, and "novelist" — one who crafts them — followed by the early 1700s, the "-ist" suffix marking a doer, as in "artist" or "chemist." So a novelist is, quite literally, a maker of new things.
- daily output
- Graham Greene wrote exactly 500 words, then stopped
- income reality
- Median full-time author earns below minimum wage
- weird rituals
- Schiller kept rotting apples in his desk drawer
- prolific record
- Barbara Cartland wrote over 700 novels
- late starters
- Annie Proulx published her first novel at 56