Live webchat: Tim Lott advises on your novels

Post your questions now for the novelist, who'll be answering questions about creative writing this Friday from 12pm

How do you write a novel in 30 days? If you've read our how-to guide, you may well have a better notion of how to achieve such a seemlingy impossible task. You may even be following the day-by-day tasks - but sometimes, of course, things don't go according to the textbook and you need someone to lend an ear and offer some advice on how to move on to the next step. Well, with this in mind we've asked author Tim Lott to answer your novel-writing questions in a live webchat this Friday 26 October, taking place here between 12-1pm (BST).

This is the first in a series of four webchats we'll host on Friday lunchtimes, aimed at helping you with your fiction writing. To keep the chats focused, each will be around a particular topic covered in the how-to guides. This week, Tim will tackle your questions about brainstorming, creating preliminary outlines, character and plot sketches and research.

You can read more here about how Tim spends his working day, and if you missed any of the guides or the accompanying worksheets, you can find everything you need over here.

Post your question in the thread below now, then come back at 12pm on Friday to chat live to Tim.

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