Writing A Novel, Fast or Slow
Each writer is different. There is no right or wrong way to write a great novel. Some writers have written their first novel in a week and others took over ten years to get it finished. The road to success comes in all shapes and sizes. When I sat down to write my first published fiction novel Calling Vicki, I thought that it would take six weeks. It ended up taking me almost eight months. I have two unpublished novels that took me less that two months and my next novel looks like it will come in at about the two months mark. You may be totally different. You have your own internal timer that paces your writing. We write best when we are enjoying the process. We should never force ourselves to do something that we love to do.
You may approach the novel with no more than a blank page. Writing the novel as you go. Then again you may write down a lengthy outline and follow that outline like the blueprint for a building or a GPS map. Do what works for you and never let how others walked the path to influence you. You may be a sprinter or you may be a long distance runner. You will find out which you are by showing up each day and getting to work. My way is to visit the blank screen off and on for two or three hours and then get my really writing done during hours four and five. I need five hours a day to really get that two hours worth of work done. During that two hours I am good for six to eight pages. You may need only ninety minutes each day to do all of your writing. Just remember that what ever gets pages done is okay.
Thank you for visiting my blog and please take a moment to like this post on Stumbleupon and to check out a chapter from my book Calling Vicki. The first five are available above this post. Good luck with your novel and have fun writing.
Each writer is different. There is no right or wrong way to write a great novel. Some writers have written their first novel in a week and others took over ten years to get it finished. The road to success comes in all shapes and sizes. When I sat down to write my first published fiction novel Calling Vicki, I thought that it would take six weeks. It ended up taking me almost eight months. I have two unpublished novels that took me less that two months and my next novel looks like it will come in at about the two months mark. You may be totally different. You have your own internal timer that paces your writing. We write best when we are enjoying the process. We should never force ourselves to do something that we love to do.
You may approach the novel with no more than a blank page. Writing the novel as you go. Then again you may write down a lengthy outline and follow that outline like the blueprint for a building or a GPS map. Do what works for you and never let how others walked the path to influence you. You may be a sprinter or you may be a long distance runner. You will find out which you are by showing up each day and getting to work. My way is to visit the blank screen off and on for two or three hours and then get my really writing done during hours four and five. I need five hours a day to really get that two hours worth of work done. During that two hours I am good for six to eight pages. You may need only ninety minutes each day to do all of your writing. Just remember that what ever gets pages done is okay.
Thank you for visiting my blog and please take a moment to like this post on Stumbleupon and to check out a chapter from my book Calling Vicki. The first five are available above this post. Good luck with your novel and have fun writing.
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