The Weekend Novelist

Robert J. Ray and coauthor Bret Norris can help readers write a novel while holding on to a day job, with this accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends. The Weekend Novelist shows writers of all levels how to divide their writing time into weekend work sessions, and how to handle character, scene, and plot. This new, revised version is more skills-based than its predecessor, includes both classic and contemporary literature models, contains a sample "Novel in Progress," and at the end offers readers the choice to rewrite their novel, draft a memoir, or turn their rough draft into a screenplay.--From publisher description.