Although Breach Of Trust is 258 pages, the first novel I ever wrote was around 400 pages. I was working full time when I wrote that first novel. Actually more than full time. I was working crazy hours. I was newly married. I had side businesses. Time sucks all over the place.
So how did I do it?
I took the advice of most professional writers and wrote my "quota" a day (mine was 250 words or one page). Good, bad, or brilliant, I wrote that page. If I had extra time/energy, I went back and revised or changed but I always wrote that page. You write a page a day and you'll finish a novel a year. Dream (of writing a book) accomplished. One page a day.
Did I write that page while sitting in complete silence in my home office?
Laughing hysterically. No. No. No. I didn't have that sort of time (remember the working crazy hours part?). I wrote it long hand while sitting on the bus or waiting for the hubby or in line at the grocery store. I kid you not. Why? Because this dream was important to me.
That first book was horrible but I finished it. I never said I'd write a great book, simply that I'd write a book. The second was better. The third even better than that. The fourth was Breach of Trust and my fifth, Invisible, is even better.
