Good morning!
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Good morning!
Sunny and cool for my early-morning walk, with some low-lying fog in the fields. It's going to be a nice day, warming up to 77F (25C)
Another day of working on the WIP. Books take an awfully long time to write. This one is slowly getting into the shape it needs to be in for me to write the ending.
Have a good one, my friends, and keep on keeping on.
#Today
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Good morning!
Sunny and cool for my early-morning walk, with some low-lying fog in the fields. It's going to be a nice day, warming up to 77F (25C)
Another day of working on the WIP. Books take an awfully long time to write. This one is slowly getting into the shape it needs to be in for me to write the ending.
Have a good one, my friends, and keep on keeping on.
#Today@joyce How long does it take you to finish a book?
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@joyce How long does it take you to finish a book?
Anywhere from three to six months for a mystery. Closer to six most of the time, and somehow taking longer each time.
Then again, my magum opus about Archbishop Wulfstan took 10 years to research and write, so what's a few months?
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Anywhere from three to six months for a mystery. Closer to six most of the time, and somehow taking longer each time.
Then again, my magum opus about Archbishop Wulfstan took 10 years to research and write, so what's a few months?
@joyce You made me laugh at that. 3-6 months is definitely less than 10 years. 3-6 sounds very reasonable to me, but I don't write books. It's really great that you so so well at it.
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@joyce You made me laugh at that. 3-6 months is definitely less than 10 years. 3-6 sounds very reasonable to me, but I don't write books. It's really great that you so so well at it.
The Wulfstan book required many months of reading and transcribing 1000-year-old manuscripts in libraries in London, Cambridge, and Oxford (and one in Copenhagen), which meant I could only do it when I had the time and means to travel. Then reading pretty much everything written about Archbishop Wulfstan -- thousands and thousands of pages in English and German -- and figuring out what I wanted to say that would add to the scholarship.
The mysteries I pretty much just make up.
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The Wulfstan book required many months of reading and transcribing 1000-year-old manuscripts in libraries in London, Cambridge, and Oxford (and one in Copenhagen), which meant I could only do it when I had the time and means to travel. Then reading pretty much everything written about Archbishop Wulfstan -- thousands and thousands of pages in English and German -- and figuring out what I wanted to say that would add to the scholarship.
The mysteries I pretty much just make up.
@joyce So it was the research that took the time. That's my biggest challenge, too. Finding the time while working was a challenge (for both of us). Records access is definitely another hurdle. It sounds like 10 years with interesting travel.
