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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.
I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.
I can write a book in probably three months.
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.
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.
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.
I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.