Crafting a Novel : "The Death's Laughter"s Experience

Crafting a Novel: The Death¿s Laughter¿s Experience is a summation of the processes involved in writing a novel. It explores the stages and processes taken in writing a novel based on facts from the media. This book examines the conception, thematic concerns, language and characterisation development in the crafted novel. While explaining the incident leading to the writing of the novel, the book discusses the influences on the writer. The book goes further to examine the themes the novel explores- both main and sub themes. It attempts to look at the treatment of these themes in other literary works. There is an insight given into language and narrative techniques within the novel Death's Laughter.The challenges of African writers writing in the colonial masters languages is discussed and the process of peopling the characters and the type of characters is also discussed. the book ends with references used. This is a book that will be useful to fiction writers, students of Literature and creative writers because it takes them through the inside knowledge of how a novel can be crafted.