Book cover for This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley

This Year You Write Your Novel

Walter Mosley
2009 Released
112 Pages
1-2 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
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Little, Brown and CompanyISBN 9780316040433

"A straightforward, friendly guide for aspiring writers" (Los Angeles Times): No more excuses. With award-winning author Walter Mosley as your guide, you can write a novel now.

"Let the lawn get shaggy and the paint peel from the walls," bestselling novelist Walter Mosley advises. In this invaluable book of tips, practical advice, and wisdom, Mosley promises that the writer-in-waiting can finish their novel in one year.

Intended as both inspiration and instruction, this book provides the tools to turn out a first draft painlessly and then revise it into something finer. Mosley teaches you 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.
  • Hook readers with dynamic characters.
  • Get past those first challenging sentences and into the heart of a story.
  • And much more.

"No-nonsense advice that is sure to set beginning writers along the righteous path to real authorhood." --Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Walter Mosley

<DIV><B>Walter Mosley</B> is one of America's most celebrated and beloved writers. A Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, he has won numerous awards, including the Anisfield-Wolf Award, a Grammy, a PEN USA's Lifetime Achievement Award, and several NAACP Image Awards. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. His short fiction has appeared in a wide array of publications, including <I>The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire, Los Angeles Times Magazine,</I> and <I>Playboy,</I> and his nonfiction has been published in <I>The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek,</I> and <I>The Nation</I>. He is the author of, most recently, <I>Down the River unto the Sea</I>. He lives in New York City.</DIV>

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Gray Dawn
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Devil in a Blue Dress
The Long Fall
A Red Death
Down the River unto the Sea
Black Betty
Farewell, Amethystine
Trouble Is What I Do
Rose Gold

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