![]() ![]() ![]() I realized that, with the right strategies and careful planning, writing a novel in a month is a completely achievable goal. I started learning and experimenting as much as I could, and while I didn’t finish my second novel in a month, I did write a very respectable first draft in seven weeks and sent the final manuscript to my agent a few months after. A lesson I could transfer from my nonfiction to my fiction that would make the process easier and, well, faster. Surely there was some trick I was missing. I’d written eight nonfiction books, each in less than two weeks. ![]() But I’d been a journalist for over a decade, spitting out 1,000-word articles on deadline several times a week. My first novel had taken five years to write and an additional two years of editing before my literary agent considered it done, so it wasn’t as though I had a brilliant track record. It started out as a joke: Could I write a publishable novel in a month? ![]()
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