This week, Dianne and I apply the "circle" models of plot to our Work In Progress!  Come check it out on Write to Work.

I just now noticed that I was spamming y'all with tweets. *facepalm* I used to know how to cut those posts, but until then, I turned that off.

Dianne and I are going through The Weekend Novelist together to develop our writing together and individually. We're using this process for a novel that we already loosely plotted, one we know we can do the old way. We're also using it for other novels we're each writing, but this novel is one we'll show as we go.

It's already bearing fruit; I can't believe I haven't done this before. Or, I haven't done it recently. Since I made the post on Blogger, I realized that I did do this in the past, but not quite the same way.  It's really, really useful.

If you've got a copy of The Weekend Novelist, or if you'd like to grab one from the library or bookstore, why don't you follow along with us?  You're welcome to write a guest post if you are doing this/have done it in the past. This first stage has another week in it--the week in which Dianne and I somehow manage to come together and make a single piece of work--and it didn't take long to complete.

Because this is a 52-weekend program, and because it's a very easy schedule, there's lots of time in which to work ahead or catch up if life doesn't go our way. We hope to keep on schedule for the whole year--I don't see both of us being down for the count at the same time. (Oh, I hope!) 

At the end, we'll have a book, and a better understanding of how we work. I think it's a win-win situation all around. It's time for us to up our game!

Nick and Holly have been dancing the same dance since college--Holly traipsing the thin line between living wild and ending up dead, Nick trying to live a 'proper' life with occasional desperate dashes to drag Holly out of trouble. Nick's marriage meant all that had to stop and for years Nick has only seen glimpses of Holly through the lens of the tabloids. When Holly really looks like he's going to cross that line after all, Nick can't help himself. He knows Holly doesn't want him, he knows he's doing it for all the wrong reasons, but he's compelled to break the rules of his tidy little life just one more time.

You can purchase One Real Thing right here!

I think one of the reasons Dianne and I get along so well is that we are both prone to the "I can't do that? Oh, CAN'T I?!" affliction. Also, the "why does no one do this, let's do this" affliction. When we were talking about the topics that led to us plotting and writing One Real Thing, those afflictions were both rather much in play. That's why the book means so much to me and why I'm so excited that Carina Press had faith in it.

(One Real Thing is not only available at Carina Press as an e-book, it's also one of Carina's books selected to be made into an audio book by Audible.com. Oh, the squealing that ensued when I found that one out. And I don't squee that much these days.)

Anyway, how about we talk about you? Or at least give you an excerpt?