When beginning to write one's third novel

[pegkerr]

it is perhaps unwise to start reading Nicholas Nickleby and reflect that this was Dickens' third novel. Comparisons can be so discouraging.

That being said, I think that Ralph Nickleby might be a good model for the villain I'm trying to create (the unnamed Mr. X). A man of business, admired as an upstanding member of the community, with an utterly cold heart.

Hmm.

Peg

Comments

[serendipoz.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if I recall Dickens also wrote his novels to be serialized in the newspaper? Weekly?