During a recent telephone conversation, I mentioned having sent off the last revisions for my twentieth novel, Great Sky Woman. There was a silence on the other side of the phone, followed by the question How in the world do you do that? Twenty novels!
The truth is that I know many writers who have written far more than twenty novels. It is not that unusual. In fact, if you are a working writer, the perfect output is very close to a book a year. Less often than this, and the readers stop anticipating your next book, and wander to another writers literary pasture.
There is a commonality to the behavior patterns of successful writers, and a commonality to the behavior patterns of writers who just cant get started, cant get finished, or stall out at their first or third book.
Successful, prolific writers:
1) Write every day. Thats EVERY day. They sit down, open their veins, and bleed into their computers. Yes, it can be painful, but if you dont maintain this kind of regularity, rust creeps in. The connection between heart, mind and fingers is broken. And we mistake the struggle for our natural state.
2) Read every day. Reading is priming the...
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