Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
It takes a long time to publish a book.
I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait.
It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.
When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.
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