A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
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.
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.
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.
The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
It takes a long time to publish a book.
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