This step-by-step book shows you how to organise your writing around weekends. There is a programme for each weekend in the year, taking you through every stage from the basics of character, scene and plot, to the construction of the novel in scenes and chapters. There is also advice on how to make your writing time sacred, which books to have on your bookshelf, how to think like a writer, why other writers quit after the first chapter, and how to start your book in the first four weekends.