New Year, New Process

This Last year, Dianne and I discovered the Weekend Novelist books. In classic style, we both read the rewriting one first, then looked at The Weekend Novelist. Because it had such a coherent system and such good ideas, we decided (well, I made the suggestion and Dianne gamely went along with it--I can't believe she trusts me after all these years) to do the "dynamic 52-week program" over the next year.

If all goes well, this will give us a chance to learn some new techniques for working together, and we'll get an extra novel out of the next 12 months.

The exercises in each chapter generally span a 2-week period. Some we'll be doing together, some we'll both be doing, and others we'll split up--depending on what we'll get out of each exercise. For us, the purpose is to better learn each other's paradigm and expectations, to communicate better with each other, and to get to where we can each work effectively and independently without working unilaterally.

At least post about a chapter will be about the process involved, the other will be about the product. That means you can look forward to seeing photographs of our notes and diagrams as well as excerpts of prose--no matter what works or doesn't work.

Feel free to follow along or grab a copy of the book and work on your own novel.

Amazon: The Weekend Novelist
                The Weekend Novelist on Kindle
B&N: The Weekend Novelist

Coming soon... So, what ARE you writing, anyway?