I was just browsing James Patterson’s website and went looking at the novels he’s written and unless I’m wrong, this author is currently generating five novels a year. When his career started he was writing one novel a year, but in 1996 he started to ramp these up to two a year. All I can think is holy cow.
All I can think of is that he writes his drafts, 30 days each, for the first five months of the year, then spends anothers 30 days each to edit. Sure, with experience, you can write faster as obviously your grammar, style and pacing are pack down and his novels probably get approved on 1st edit.
Well I hope I can get my novel done by the end of the year as I planned.
3 responses so far ↓
osmiumantidote // April 13, 2008 at 10:24 pm
That makes two of us. I wish you success on your novel! I didn’t read your entire blog, but I have found that by joining a writers’ group, I am forced to keep to a timetable.
nymeria87 // April 14, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Setting yourself certain writing goals is important, but in Patterson’s case I’m wondering if he might not be overdoing it a little bit (just a little, really
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Other than that, I’m echoing you and osmiumantidote: I’m planning on finishing my first draft in within the next couple of months and then plan on edit it severely. My hope is to get this done till the end of the year. It’s optimistic, but hey you got to have goals, right?
Elvira // October 28, 2008 at 4:16 am
Good post.