If it's 400 words, then you'll write 2000 in a week and you'll have your novel finished in about 10 months. If it's 800 words, you'll be finished in 5 months.

And that's how I go about writing a novel. I work out my workload, break it down into easily achievable sections and just keep at it. It's called discipline.

It's amazing how work mounts up. You don't feel too overwhelmed because your daily schedule doesn't push you too hard. You write your novel one step at a time.

3. Don't worry about what you're writing.

If I worried about quality of what I was writing in my first draft, I'd give up. It would be too hard.

Instead, I try and get story down as quickly as possible. No outlines. No chapter-by-chapter headings. I just tell a story.

I know that when I come back to it, there will be lots to improve and to work on. But by that time, I'll have written my book. I'll just be editing it and redrafting it.

I hope these tips help. It's been part of technique I've developed to help me to get to end of each novel. They are not golden rules - feel free to break them. They just work for me.

Before I go any further, let me reassure you that I didn't interview these people just to get my subscription list up on my newsletter. I really am interested in what published novelists have to say. I've picked up a few tips from people I've talked to.

But never one to look a gift horse in mouth, I just happened to mention fact that I was interviewing these people on a few forums that I visit. I signed up ten people on one day, which for a little newsletter like mine is superb going.

I bet you're wondering how hard it was to arrange interviews? In all honesty, it was one of easiest things I've ever done. Find a writer's web page, email them with a request for an interview and wait for a response. I'm getting a 50% acceptance rate at moment.

So there you go.

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