Article: Writing Twenty Novels (In Ten Easy Steps!)

Writing Twenty Novels (In Ten Easy Steps!)

During a recent telephone conversation, I mentioned having sent off the last revisions for my twentieth novel, ?Great Sky Woman.? There was a silence on the other side of the phone, followed by the question ?How in the world do you do that? Twenty novels!?



The truth is that I know many writers who have written far more than twenty novels. It is not that unusual. In fact, if you are a working writer, the ?perfect? output is very close to a book a year. Less often than this, and the readers stop anticipating your next book, and wander to another writer?s literary pasture.



There is a commonality to the behavior patterns of successful writers, and a commonality to the behavior patterns of writers who just can?t get started, can?t get finished, or stall out at the...
 

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Writing Twenty Novels (In Ten Easy Steps!)

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