Walter Mosley: This Year You Write Your Novel (USA 2009)

From the Publisher:
No more excuses. "Let the lawn get shaggy and the paint peel from the walls," bestselling novelist Walter Mosley advises. Anyone can write a novel now, and in this essential book of tips, practical advice, and wisdom, Walter Mosley promises that the writer-in-waiting can finish it in one year. Mosley tells how to:
- Create a daily writing regimen to fit any writer's needs--and how to stick to it.
- Determine the narrative voice that's right for every writer's style.
- Get past those first challenging sentences and into the heart of a story.

Intended as both inspiration and instruction, THIS YEAR YOU WRITE YOUR NOVEL provides the tools to turn out a first draft painlessly and then revise it into something finer.

Walter Mosley: This Year You Write Your Novel. Little, Brown, & Co., ISBN: 9780316065498 (January, 2009), 128 p., $9.99.

Walter Mosley: This Year You Write Your Novel (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
Is that great novel still a seed in your mind, waiting for the right time to emerge? "Let the lawn get shaggy and the paint peel from the walls," Walter Mosley advises, because you can write your novel at any time, whatever your work and personal responsibilities may be. And with this essential book, Mosley promises that the writer-in-waiting can do it in just one year.

Offering both motivation and instruction, Mosley provides the tools needed to turn a novel idea into a first draft in only three months. He shows you how to create a daily writing regimen that will fit any writer's needs-and inspires you to stick to it. With examples you can wrap your fingers around, he teaches the fundamentals of fiction writing, from how to pick the perfect narrative style to fit your story, to hooking your reader with dynamic characters, to reading poetry for a sense of rhythm. With your draft under way, Mosley guides you through the art of revision, demonstrating how to turn the core of your story into a complete and vibrant novel-it might be the idea you set out with originally, or it might be something even better.

Eliminating your personal doubts and your writer's block, master craftsman Walter Mosley gets you past those hesitant first sentences and into the thick of your own creation, where you can write with abandon. This Year You Write Your Novel is an indispensable book of tips, tools, practical advice, and wisdom from the author of the bestselling Easy Rawlins novels and the acclaimed literary novels The Man in My Basement and Fortunate Son.

Walter Mosley: This Year You Write Your Novel. Little, Brown and Co., ISBN 0316065412 (April, 2007), 128 p., $19.99.