When you self-publish a novel, the process can be a lot quicker. In this section I\'ll be talking about the traditional publishing route. So, talking of publishing, let\'s take a look at the entire process before I explain to you how you can write your novel in record time.
And then, after you\'re done with your very first rough draft that took a month to jot down, you still have a long way to go until your book is of a good enough quality to query an agent with, or send to your editor.let alone publish! What that normally means is that it took them four weeks to get all the words down on paper, because many books start as as a little seed of an idea that grows and grows years before the first word is written. But there are many factors at play as to how long a book takes to write, and you won\'t know what your own speed is until you reach The End of your first novel.Īlso, please don\'t think that when someone says it took them a month to write their book that it means it took just four weeks to go from idea to publication. On average, if you\'re already an experienced author with a few titles under your belt, you can write a good-enough-to-send-to-your-editor draft within 6-18 months. Some of the world\'s bestselling books have taken a mere number of weeks to come into existence, others have taken decades. In this article I will be explaining what it takes to write a novel, the process of going from idea to bookstore, how you can better your chances of writing faster (without lowering the quality or getting too overwhelmed), and - to make us all feel better - we\'ll take a look at famous books and their authors and see how long they took to pen their masterpieces. So let\'s keep going.Īs an author of six published novels and counting, and having been traditionally published, self-published, written with co-writers and solo, over the last ten years I\'ve learned the hard way how long it takes to write a full length novel, a short story, and a novella. Whether you\'re writing a book for the first time or this is your tenth attempt, at some point on your writing journey you will ask yourself - \'How long does it take to write a novel?\'Īlthough this is generally the answer to how long anything creative takes to achieve, if we stop right here this would be a very short and unhelpful article.
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