This Year You Write Your Novel

by Walter Mosley Narrated by Dion Graham

Overview

"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

Editorial Reviews

FEBRUARY 2019 - AudioFile

Sounding like a cross between a favorite teacher and a best friend, narrator Dion Graham captures Mosley’s iconic tone in an audiobook that investigates the creative writing process. Walter Mosley, the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins mysteries, knows whereof he speaks. Mosley’s well-ordered, straightforward “how to” tips offer a safety net for cautious novice writers. The tone overall is educational in that it imparts knowledge and inspirational in that it spurs action. Graham’s delivery is warm, reassuring, and forceful enough to get writers writing. He makes Mosley’s directives—from the absolute necessity of writing every day to the need to edit and rewrite—sound sensible and obvious. Mosley’s little book carries a big message, and Graham delivers it smartly. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

Library Journal

With Mosley as instructor, how can your novel go wrong? Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

From the Publisher

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

FEBRUARY 2019 - AudioFile

Sounding like a cross between a favorite teacher and a best friend, narrator Dion Graham captures Mosley’s iconic tone in an audiobook that investigates the creative writing process. Walter Mosley, the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins mysteries, knows whereof he speaks. Mosley’s well-ordered, straightforward “how to” tips offer a safety net for cautious novice writers. The tone overall is educational in that it imparts knowledge and inspirational in that it spurs action. Graham’s delivery is warm, reassuring, and forceful enough to get writers writing. He makes Mosley’s directives—from the absolute necessity of writing every day to the need to edit and rewrite—sound sensible and obvious. Mosley’s little book carries a big message, and Graham delivers it smartly. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170179435
Publisher:	Hachette Audio
Publication date:	01/08/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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