It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.
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I don't write a novel every two years.
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.
I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
I spend about a year between novels.
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready.
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