history: I have always wanted to write a novel, but I don't know where to even start.
knowledge: A novel is any relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, and typically published as a book.
response: Awesome!  So you want to write narrative fiction typically published as a book then?
history: I have always wanted to write a novel, but I don't know where to even start.
Awesome!  So you want to write narrative fiction typically published as a book then?
Yup!  What do you know about romance writing?
knowledge: Novels of this type of genre fiction place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an ''emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.''
response: You mean a novel about love and the relationship between two people?
history: I have always wanted to write a novel, but I don't know where to even start.
Awesome!  So you want to write narrative fiction typically published as a book then?
Yup!  What do you know about romance writing?
You mean a novel about love and the relationship between two people?
Yes, exactly. Although, I'm not much of a romantic so maybe I should pick another genre. Any suggestions?
knowledge: The genre has been described as having ''a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years,'' with its origins in classical Greece and Rome, in medieval and early modern romance, and in the tradition of the novella.
response: I don't have a suggestion for you.  Romance novels have a history of about 2,000 years!
history: I have always wanted to write a novel, but I don't know where to even start.
Awesome!  So you want to write narrative fiction typically published as a book then?
Yup!  What do you know about romance writing?
You mean a novel about love and the relationship between two people?
Yes, exactly. Although, I'm not much of a romantic so maybe I should pick another genre. Any suggestions?
I don't have a suggestion for you.  Romance novels have a history of about 2,000 years!
I was curious about the difference between a novel and I've also heard the term ''novella''. Is that the same thing?
knowledge: Ian Watt, in ''The Rise of the Novel'', suggested in 1957 that the novel first came into being in the early 18th century.
response: Couldn't say!  Ian Watt stated that the novel orginated in the early 18th century.
history: I have always wanted to write a novel, but I don't know where to even start.
Awesome!  So you want to write narrative fiction typically published as a book then?
Yup!  What do you know about romance writing?
You mean a novel about love and the relationship between two people?
Yes, exactly. Although, I'm not much of a romantic so maybe I should pick another genre. Any suggestions?
I don't have a suggestion for you.  Romance novels have a history of about 2,000 years!
I was curious about the difference between a novel and I've also heard the term ''novella''. Is that the same thing?
Couldn't say!  Ian Watt stated that the novel orginated in the early 18th century.
Can you tell me anything about detective fiction?
knowledge: Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, and Hercule Poirot.
response: Well I know about some of the famous detective fiction heroes, would that interest you?  Some of them include Hercule Poirot, C. Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes.