Tim Lott, author of 'Yes! No! But Wait! - The One Thing You Need to Know to Write a Novel' - Award-winner discusses why spaces don't matter, why plot is everything and dealing with guilt
Writer's Routine
How to Write a Book in Three Hours
I decided I was going to do three hours. And I broke that down to three 45 minutes sections. So I wrote for 45 minutes, stopped for 10 minutes, had a cup of coffee or a biscuit and so on. That way I got my three hours completed. And I found out that you can get a lot of work done in three hours. If you break it up like that, you're working in very short spurts. But during those short spurts, you know, you're very productive or I'm very productive. It's different for every writer. Once I've got a book underway, at the moment I'm just playing with ideas rather than actually writing a book
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