I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
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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.
It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the 'Time Warp Trio' novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.
Normally, it takes me about three years to write one of the big books. It is usually four years between releases because of the huge amount of travel and PR and just nuisance going on around them. I have a lot of pressure from publishers and agents.
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.
I can write a book in probably three months.
It takes me about three years to write a book. They're very complex, and they take a lot of research, but also because the more popular your books get, the more popular you get, and people want to haul you off and look at you.