Which type books give you the most inspiration and ideas to make it easy write?
That sounds like a brilliant idea. Maybe you should write that...No one seems to write books on how to have fewer ideas.
200 hours? I wish I could do it that fast.I've got bad news for you. Writing is hard, and that's not going to change.
To write a book, you have to make yourself sit down in isolation behind a keyboard for something like 200 hours. And then do that again to edit the thing. That just is hard work, and it doesn't really get any easier.
As for learning about writing, I like the university lectures of Brandon Sanderson, which he posts for free on Youtube. They're a good introduction into writing Scifi/Fantasy. He also has a podcast, called Writing Excuses, which is nice inspiration and relatively short (think 15-20 minutes per episode).
Other inspiration for me comes from reader great and terrible books. Great books because they make me want to achieve that and make people feel things, terrible books because they make me think "I can do better than this."
Agreed. That's a time frame I have absolutely no hope of achieving. My book will probably require about 2000-4000 hours, I'd say.200 hours? I wish I could do it that fast.
For me, it’s a mix of random quotes, weird prompts, and genre-blurring books spark the most ideas. Sometimes a single line from a novel or a bizarre movie scene gets my brain going. Give me something messy and unexpected.Which type books give you the most inspiration and ideas to make it easy write? Is it a single book? same genre? Self help, learning exercise books? Movies about books? or snippets and quotes or blurbs of books? Or promts?
200 hours? I wish I could do it that fast.
I think 200 hours is a decent estimate for getting a first draft on paper. However, that's pure writing time. It doesn't include the thinking parts or worldbuilding or staring at a blank screen for an hour.Agreed. That's a time frame I have absolutely no hope of achieving. My book will probably require about 2000-4000 hours, I'd say.
It's hard say as inspiration can actually come from anywhere and doesn't have to be a book or something like that but yeah some can be more tailored to where they get their inspiration from while others can simply be free going and going with the flow.Which type books give you the most inspiration and ideas to make it easy write? Is it a single book? same genre? Self help, learning exercise books? Movies about books? or snippets and quotes or blurbs of books? Or promts?
That may be true for 'normal' people, but not me. I get maybe a little over 100 words per hour, and there' isn't much I can to do to make it any faster. At least, not on my current project. It may eventually reach around 120K-150K words, but with 4-5 revisions/touch-ups, my original estimate for time expended will be about right.I think 200 hours is a decent estimate for getting a first draft on paper. However, that's pure writing time. It doesn't include the thinking parts or worldbuilding or staring at a blank screen for an hour.
But 500 words per hour is a decent writing speed. It's not blindingly fast, and many can get it. In terms of pure typing, it's less than 10 words a minute, though that's misleading ofcourse. At 500 words an hour, a 100k words novel takes 200 hours to type. Of course, it shifts with how many words your story is. If you're writing a 1 million word epic, then it will take a lot longer, while a 75k word novel should be a bit shorter.
For many though the issue is actually sitting down and typing for those 200 hours. If you spend that time researching or staring at your screen or being distracted, then it's not actually writing, and the time will add up.