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This Year You Write Your Novel

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By Walter Mosley

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“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

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  • "Walter Mosley has penned a marvelously encouraging and -- far more important -- useful guide to writing."
    San Diego Union-Tribune

On Sale
Jan 8, 2009
Page Count
128 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13
9780316065498

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Walter Mosley

About the Author

WALTER MOSLEY is one of America’s most celebrated writers. He was given the 2020 National Book Award’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and honored with the Anisfield-Wolf Award, a Grammy, a PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, the Robert Kirsch Award, numerous Edgars and several NAACP Image Awards. His work is translated into 25 languages.  He has published fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker, Playboy, and The Nation. As an executive producer, he adapted his novel, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, for AppleTV+ and serves as a writer and executive producer for FX’s “Snowfall.”

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