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The opposite of those who write 15 hour a day; the opposite of those who write 365 days a year.
The ideal candidate for this thread is someone who wrote a super-duper novella or a screenplay over a weekend and has been vacationing ever since. Promotion hassle doesn't count--only the act of creating the story.
I'll start:
John Saul--the third most successful horror/suspense writer in the world after King and Koontz. Focused bursts of work allow for up to ten months a year of slow collection of ideas for the next project.
Source: I generally spend about four hours a day at the word processor. And it takes me about two months to write a full-length novel. but of course it takes a year to think up a good idea!
Ian Fleming--wrote James Bond novels over winter weeks in a Jamaica beach house (the Goldeneye, natch), at 3-4 h a day, swimming and napping in the remaining hours.
Source: And for the next many years, Ian would continue to follow this elaborate, yet simple, writing schedule and complete a new Bond novel at Goldeneye each winter
Lee Child--the most protestant of the three--the yearly novel takes him half a year at around 6h a day--only half a year left to chill completely.
Source: I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until "The End."
The ideal candidate for this thread is someone who wrote a super-duper novella or a screenplay over a weekend and has been vacationing ever since. Promotion hassle doesn't count--only the act of creating the story.
I'll start:
John Saul--the third most successful horror/suspense writer in the world after King and Koontz. Focused bursts of work allow for up to ten months a year of slow collection of ideas for the next project.
Source: I generally spend about four hours a day at the word processor. And it takes me about two months to write a full-length novel. but of course it takes a year to think up a good idea!
Ian Fleming--wrote James Bond novels over winter weeks in a Jamaica beach house (the Goldeneye, natch), at 3-4 h a day, swimming and napping in the remaining hours.
Source: And for the next many years, Ian would continue to follow this elaborate, yet simple, writing schedule and complete a new Bond novel at Goldeneye each winter
Lee Child--the most protestant of the three--the yearly novel takes him half a year at around 6h a day--only half a year left to chill completely.
Source: I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until "The End."
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