I am working to finish the novel I started in November.  I am revising and hope to have it completed this spring.  In the meantime, I thought it might be fun to try something in the same vein as the Write a Novel with me posts but in a slightly different format. 

I love to read devotionals on a daily basis.  This year I am reading Halle Ephron’s Bibliophile devotional. Each day she has the  first line from a book, a breif description of what it is about and a short review written by someone else, usually a reviewer with a national newspaper.  Though I have read quite of few of the books she suggests, it has also giving me lots of other ideas of  books to read in the future.

I plan to write a weekly post instead of a daily post, I thought it might be fun to write something once a week about writing, starting with the first spark of an idea through the actual writing process, revision and then the steps to take to find a publisher and agent. 

I will break the year down and share with you suggestions for each stage.  At the end of each post, I will have an assignment for you to do that week.  I’m hoping that you could be my first readers. I’m thinking that by the end of this year, I could have a novel finished and possibly a non-fiction how-to book also.  I hope you like the idea  and will follow my posts through to the end of the year.  Because I am using this medium it allows this process to be more inter-active than if you were reading it as a how-to book at home.  If you have questions or suggestions, I would love to hear from you along the way. 

So welcome to a new adventure as we write a novel together in 2010.  I’ll be back tomorrow with Story Ideas and How to Start.

Virginia