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slrogers:
I think I remember Steven King having said that if it takes more than 5 years, you're just lollygagging.
Brandon Sanderson sais that it takes him about a year to put out his epic fantacies, but suggests a shorter timeframe for shorter books.

Personally for me, only being able to write part time, and still having so much to learn, it seems like yearly is still ambitious.

But I agree with Anei that probably for each person it will be different. Some might like putting in a lot of study in advance, kind of like a Dan Brown. And some might just want to be done with the book and move on to the next idea as quick as possible, like an Issac Asiomv (when you have so many ideas for books, you might never get them out if you take too long). Or there might be a whole list of other factors that might drive shorter or longer limelines.

Wordmaker:
I believe that, at the moment with my current writing schedule, I could complete two books a year with little difficulty. I aim to increase that to four a year, but that will absolutely require a combination of self-publishing and traditional publishing.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
I'm not sure I can see a way of combining a full-time day job with the essentials of the rest of my life (eating, sleeping, and enough downtime of various sorts to stay sane) that would support writing more than one novel a year on an ongoing basis; for a year or two just maybe, if I was fairly sure of nothing on the scale of a change of dayjob hitting in that timespan.

slrogers:

--- Quote from: Wordmaker on July 18, 2013, 04:23:16 PM ---I believe that, at the moment with my current writing schedule, I could complete two books a year with little difficulty. I aim to increase that to four a year, but that will absolutely require a combination of self-publishing and traditional publishing.

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Awesome. I would love to be able to spend that much time writing.

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