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How long is the way between writer's mind and hand?
Marc Nash
Depends on the author, but I write really quickly once I sit down to start a 1st draft. I have let the original ideas simmer in my sub-conscious for 6 months prior, barely making anything but a few notes, certainly not starting to write it. Then 6 months later it's ready to emerge. So although I haven't drawn up a plan, it is pretty well formed in my mind, but still fresh enough as I'm writing it because it can change between the mind & the pen.
My last novel I wrote the first draft shadowing NaNoMoWri and completed the first draft in about 6 weeks from start to end. And that was with no planning whatsoever, it was 'provoked' by my irritation with a novel I had just read and sat down the very next day and began writing my response. I suppose the ideas of my book must have been lurking in my mind, but my irritation pulled them all together and into the creation of a new work for me.
My last novel I wrote the first draft shadowing NaNoMoWri and completed the first draft in about 6 weeks from start to end. And that was with no planning whatsoever, it was 'provoked' by my irritation with a novel I had just read and sat down the very next day and began writing my response. I suppose the ideas of my book must have been lurking in my mind, but my irritation pulled them all together and into the creation of a new work for me.
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