Conrad Jones

There are many guides about writing novels on the market but how many of them are written by prolific published authors? The answer is ‘not many’.

How can they give you advice when they have never sat down and focused on creating a novel which will sell, many times over?

Writing a novel is the same as any other task we undertake as individuals. We have to learn how to do it in order to do it well. When you first learn to drive, you need lessons. No one walks into the kitchen and creates a gourmet dish on their first attempt. If you want a system to apply to writing a book, then you need to take advice from an ‘author’ who has taken years to develop the process via experience.

. My system was created during the process of writing 9 thrillers, 4 horrors, 2 biographies and over a dozen book marketing guides

The maths

First of all, you need a target to aim for. This target is flexible to a degree but you will need a guide to work by. Short stories can be a few thousand words up to about 15k. Novellas are usually 30-50k but if you are using this guide to create

Most publishers are looking for a book which will be about 250-300 pages. A

Anymore and it becomes expensive and unprofitable to print and distribute. So let’s take a full length novel of 90,000 words.

Using 300 words a page we need the book to become 300 pages long, which will give us a novel 90k in length.

If we are aiming for completion in 90 days, then we need to set our daily target. Your target is to write 1.5k ‘new’ words a day.

This is flexible too as if you can write more words then great but it is the minimum you need to write. Therefore, in theory you can write a novel in 60 days.