How I Wrote 24 Books In Four months
Without Breaking Sweat
I once read somewhere that the legendary novelist Charles Dickens wrote, by hand, ten thousand words a day in his heyday. Given that a novel runs to a minimum of some fifty thousand words that meant he could write a book every five days. If he took the weekends off that would make four books a month. That would still only make sixteen books over a period of four months. So how come I managed to write twenty four books over the same period?
Well to start with I didn’t write by hand. Also, I don’t think a single one of my books ran to fifty thousand words. Some of them were were novellas rather than novels. Some were collections of short stories and others were collections of poetry. A good few of them were (semi) biographical accounts of certain aspects of my seventy years alive on this planet.
However, the fact is that those books were written over a period of some four years. It was just that I did not see what I had written as being parts of any book at the time.
At some point, I realised that after an initial reading period of a month or so, what I had written simply sank into the oblivion of the dusty archives of past published cogitations on life.
I did many a time give some thought to syndicating my stories and as an experiment joined…
