Ross Raisin

If you doubt your characters, your readers will doubt them too, so it is important to understand characters’ motivation and make their behaviour and speech convincing

Over the next 12 weeks we’ll be getting the help of successful authors to explain everything would-be writers need to know. This is the first step to your debut novel

Granta has published its list of the best young British novelists, but can one publisher define a generation and what do young writers have over their older colleagues?