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Do you have any idea how many hours go into writing a novel?

5/3/2015

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How many hours have I spent writing my novels? It's a question that arose in my mind when I was trying to price my work. It was my daughter, Laura Heaney, who made me think about it. She said, "Be careful not to undervalue your time and creative work." And she should know, as she has been dealing with this very issue for most of her adult life - artists spend hours developing their work, then they must decide what their work is worth - and will anyone buy it at that price? A daunting task!

She pointed out that I have been writing these novels for years - first as young adult stories, then I rewrote them as adult stories. When I actually think about what I have produced, I have spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours creating the Anandrian Series. WOW! What an investment...

Then I began to think about the time (investment) the reader must use to read my novels - very considerable in our hectic lives.

Tonight, I have been drawn back to the hours I have been investing as I face more hours of editing. Yes, it took about a year to write the last book in the series, but now that it is complete, I have to go back and reread it and look for errors - grammatical errors, timeline errors, errors in the magic rules that i have created, character errors (Blue eyes? Brown?), errors from one novel to the next.

OMG! When I write it out, the task almost seems overwhelming.

Then I have to reread it again, because you always miss something. And after I submit it for an evaluation read by my editor,
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    Kathryn Heaney is the author of Destiny Calls, the first book in The Anandrian Series

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