While
this novel shares some elements with Westerns and Civil War fiction, it's unique in several ways.
Not exact matches
And those
novels, just like
novels in genres like science fiction and mystery,
share common
elements but vary in quality, depending on how well they're written.
And while the
novel does
share some
elements with the classic tale, including orphans (Molly and her little brother Kip); a creepy mansion; spoiled children (Penny and Alistair Windsor); and somewhat magical growing things, The Night Gardener is decidedly darker — in the most delicious and delightful way.
Mark
shares what writing a terrible
novel at the age of 13 taught him about discipline and sacrifice and so many
elements that are important for a novelist to learn.
Maass details the
elements that all breakout
novels share — regardless of genre — then shows you how to use them to write books that can stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace.
Ahead of debuting an expanded, enhanced iPad version of his creative commons graphic
novel «Vision Machine» at NYCC, writer Greg Pak
shares an exclusive first look at the app's new interactive
elements.
It certainly
shares elements with other horror visual
novels like Zero Escape — particularly in the way its story peels back layer by layer, slowly dissolving the painting and then the frame itself — but it ultimately has more in common with genre - benders like Undertale and Pony Island than its Japanese counterparts.
And these stories use
shared experiences to make sense of
novel events, but they inevitably emphasize certain
elements while sidelining other equally meaningful
elements.