I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
I spend about a year between novels.
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
Back in my younger years, I read an average of a book a day. That was when I was going to school full time and working a job after school 30 hours or more a week.
Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!
With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.
I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book.
One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.