Thread: How many hours go into writing a novel?
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Old 10-22-2011, 12:12 PM   #33
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Thank you so much for the great responses!!!!

So it does sound like one will expect the first novels to take longer. And that the time taken will often be very roughly 500hrs +/- 300hrs. Pre-plotting and/or editing would probably push the overall "publisher ready total number up".

I realize that these will widely vary, even for a given author, but this is like gold for me to get even this glimpse of what people are spending. Much appreciated!!!!

Btw, that's a great tip about MS Word. I might even use that when creating documents at work. For those of you that use specialized writing software, I believe that many of them also track time and words, so if you are curious, it might be worth digging through the menu options or doing a search in the manual.
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