You'll develop a gut feeling about how much dialogue to write, if you read plenty of other novels. It's worth remembering too, that dialogue can speed up the pace of a novel.

Sam Altman shows off a new ChatGPT model that's very good at creative writing, as long as you want robot-written fiction.

But to write a novel Owen advises you must dedicate real time to thought. “Find where you can get that space, that opening for deep thought,” he says. “That might be really early in the ...