Dedicated To Writing

Research? Plot? Characters? Dialogue? No, the hardest part of writing a novel may well turn out to be the dedication, says Edward Docx. (He omits mention of perhaps the most famous of them all: P.G. Wodehouse's in The Heart of a Goof: "To my daughter Leonora, without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.")