Comments on: How long should it take me to write my novel?

By: Nikki

Nikki — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 02:41:04 +0000

I already have my next two books planned, lol. For me, it is just nonstop imagining, what-if’s, very few writer’s blocks and stints where nothing else exists except writing furiously on the pad before me (I always write things out by hand first). I have finished the first in what will be a trilogy (if my agent allows) and half of the second novel. I am in the glorious and very lonely stage of submitting to agents. Here’s hoping!

By: Dave Sosnowski

Dave Sosnowski — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:27:53 +0000

Well, my experience writing novels hasn\’t been one of acceleration from one to the next, but more stop and go. My first novel took me three years and many drafts before I had a publishable (and published) manuscript. My second took well over five years, came in at over 800 pages, was revised several times to bring down the page count and… never saw the light of day. After that, my third novel was written in about a year, was a blast to write, and was very well published. The next two novels were painful and protracted affairs that remain unpublished. Currently, I\’m working on yet another novel(apparently, I\’m not good with that learnin\’ thing) that I\’m starting to like quite a bit, have high hopes for, etc., though trying to type with fingers crossed does slow the process a bit.

By: Jacqueline Driggers

Jacqueline Driggers — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 02:10:43 +0000

Currently I’m working on my first novel. So I know that this first novel will take longer than the others will. With this first book, I’m working on finding my groove, my routine, figuring out how I write a book. I’m learning what works for me and what doesn’t. I know that when I write my second book, it will go much faster than the first, because I’ll have figured out a lot of my book writing routine. And the next will probably go faster than that. But first, I have to learn what works and what doesn’t.

By: jeffo

jeffo — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:34:25 +0000

At this point, I can easily take a year just to get it to the stage where it’s going to betas. I wish I wrote faster, and there may be things I can do to learn to write faster, but in the end, it takes as long as it takes. Rushing is not a good thing for me to do.