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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
How many total hours do you spend on plotting, writing and revising each novel, start to finish?
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You never finish, you just decided enough is enough and leave the story. But there really is no way to measure this. How long is your story? Do you even know? If I siad it will take 1 hour per 500 words, would that even help you since you almost certainly do not know how many words the story is yet?
My novels are "short" by some standards, in the 80-90k word range, and I would say takes me 6 months. I research and edit as I go, then when I think its perfect I hand it off to my editor who rips it to pieces.
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Also, I wonder...
* Do you consider the time consuming tasks the fun part or the painful part?
* Can writers learn to become very efficient with practice?
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The fun part is the writing! Its why I do it! I love to tell the stories that are trapped in my head, its great fun. I live the story as I write and get to experience all kinds of new things. This is why I wish I had a good agent that I could trust. I wish I could just take my work and hand it off to some one to publish/market/etc, and let me write the next book!
Efficient? I dunno, I kind of hope I never do...my goal is to write, not to be a machine.. but you will get faster at typing, your grammar and vocab will improve, and the like so that will help some.