{"id":3377,"date":"2018-04-19T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T06:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2023-06-27T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:00:52","slug":"how-to-write-a-book-in-just-under-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/19\/how-to-write-a-book-in-just-under-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"How To: Write a Book in Just Under 20 Years (or 7300 days)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;text-align: center;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"bxwretlind\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"How%20To%3A%20Write%20a%20Book%20in%20Just%20Under%2020%20Years%20%28or%207300%20days%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3r8h3Ge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DM_ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DM_ad.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DM_ad-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DM_ad-768x595.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A book takes times, does it not? On September 23, 2013, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3r8h3Ge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Difficult Mirrors<\/em><\/a> was released for consumption (and hopefully joy). That the book took a while to write is not a secret I keep. Journeys are not always quick nor do they always take a straight route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It even had a different name for nearly 10 of those years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, how do you end up taking nearly 20 years to write a novel when your last novel only took a year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s not really an easy question to answer without getting into things that are entirely too personal, but I&#8217;ll give you some background into the process. (By the way, I don&#8217;t recommend trying this at home.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 1: Find yourself in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afforums.com\/ppost\/data\/507\/3Soto_Cano_Hootch.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hooch in central Honduras<\/a> without phones, the Internet or television that isn&#8217;t in Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 2: Get yourself a journal. Not a fancy journal, either, just one you could have picked up in the stationary section in Walmart. (In fact, I think that&#8217;s where that journal came from the day before I left for Honduras&#8230;back in 1994.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 3: Write something. Anything. Your thoughts, your dreams, what you had for dinner. Or write a chapter in a novel you&#8217;ve been thinking about but haven&#8217;t outlined past the first three or so chapters. Scribble, scratch and erase whatever sounds stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 4: Return to the real world with the aforementioned journal and stuff it in a drawer. Welcome the Internet with open arms through AOL. Explore life for a year or six and raise a kid or four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 5: Dig that journal out of the drawer you put it in and type up what you&#8217;ve written. Add another chapter and a few more characters. Write things that may or may not be in the final version of the book. Know, for a fact, that what you&#8217;ve written is good, but probably not good enough to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 6: Get cocky. I don&#8217;t mean slightly cocky, but <em>really<\/em> cocky. Build a website that will house the book as you write it. Invite people you know (and those you don&#8217;t know) to add their thoughts or make corrections for you. (This was in 2002, I think. I actually had a website where people could register and read a chapter at a time as I wrote it. It didn&#8217;t last very long, but it is interesting to think back on that and know it was years before this became commonplace.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 7: Write frantically while drinking vodka. Do this for about six months. Realize as you read back on what you&#8217;ve written in your less sober state that you really shouldn&#8217;t write anything while drinking vodka. Or any other alcoholic beverage, for that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 8: Keep at it. Raise those kids. Move around to many different places. Have some adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 9: Finish the first draft after only&#8211;<em>only<\/em>&#8211;12 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 10: Write query letters. Read rejection letters. Send the novel off to a few agents who sound interested but never respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 11: Become despondent. Return to the bottle of vodka you once gave up, but transform that bottle into rum&#8230;and then whiskey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 12: Move again. Stop drinking. Write other stuff. Sell other stuff. Fiddle with the novel you once thought was good. Delete a few passages. Add a few others. Rearrange the chapters. Erase entire characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 13: Repeat Step 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 14: After 19 years, look at that novel again with a fresh perspective. Modernize some passages. Edit it. Send it off to editors for them to bleed all over. Keep doing this until it&#8217;s ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 15: Let the world have at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You see, it&#8217;s really not that hard if you try to stretch your creativity to that kind of limit. However, if you follow this pattern, you may only have 2 or 3 novels written and published before you pass on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of that said, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3r8h3Ge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Difficult Mirrors<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know you&#8217;ll love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unless you don&#8217;t, and that&#8217;s okay, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/write_a_book_pin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/write_a_book_pin-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/write_a_book_pin-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/write_a_book_pin-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/write_a_book_pin-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/write_a_book_pin.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;text-align: center;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"bxwretlind\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"How%20To%3A%20Write%20a%20Book%20in%20Just%20Under%2020%20Years%20%28or%207300%20days%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book takes times, does it not? 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