psychotick
Auror
Hi Incanus,
Twelve novels a year? I'm good but nowhere near that good. My best year was four novels and two shorter works. And time management helps. Currently I have two tv shows a week that I watch - Castle and Humans - and the news. I live alone and I spend fairly much all my free time writing. As for Spaced, I freely admit this one is extreme production even for me.
But the key to my speed is that it's first draft. I write fast and with a lot of mistakes. Then comes the entire next step starting with the beta reading. So I may write a novel in a month, but it might then take me a second month to rewrite it, and the third to go through the rounds of editing.
However, I do feel compelled to mention Michael Moorcock. For a while he was writing a novel every ten days - though he had a team to help him. You should google his method. It was basically a very prescriptive method with his novels all quite short and following a pattern - and yet they're not bad reads at all.
Cheers, Greg.
Twelve novels a year? I'm good but nowhere near that good. My best year was four novels and two shorter works. And time management helps. Currently I have two tv shows a week that I watch - Castle and Humans - and the news. I live alone and I spend fairly much all my free time writing. As for Spaced, I freely admit this one is extreme production even for me.
But the key to my speed is that it's first draft. I write fast and with a lot of mistakes. Then comes the entire next step starting with the beta reading. So I may write a novel in a month, but it might then take me a second month to rewrite it, and the third to go through the rounds of editing.
However, I do feel compelled to mention Michael Moorcock. For a while he was writing a novel every ten days - though he had a team to help him. You should google his method. It was basically a very prescriptive method with his novels all quite short and following a pattern - and yet they're not bad reads at all.
Cheers, Greg.