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Film Courage: How long does it take to write a book that’s 100,000 words?
Lux Raven, Watty-winning Romance Author / Wattpad Creator: For me any particular book tends to take around a year. I’ve known some writers who, Bam!, they’re done in a couple months. I’ve never been that person. That’s magic to me.
Then I know other writers, they’ll take 3 years to write a book. I’ve found that for whatever reason I’ve written books that are more on the 80,000 [words] end. Then I’ve written books that are way higher on the 140,000 and it always seems to be about a year. I think it’s just how fast my brain works through a plot rather than the actual word count. For me it just tends to always be about a year. I don’t know why.
Film Courage: Where does your process begin?
Lux: Funny enough, I think it begins with a lot of chaotic notes on my phone. I’ll start with some sort of vague idea and it’s usually because I’ve seen something Oh, that’s really interesting if it’s in a movie or a book or old mythology. It could be kind of anything. I start on a concept and then I kind of see what’s being done.
A lot of times what I think it’s going to be, it ends up going in a different direction and…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
About:
Lux Raven is a Watty-winning romance author and Wattpad Creator based in Los Angeles, California. Her paranormal series, Siren’s Mark, has amassed over 2.5 million reads online. She’s currently working on her fifth book, Arrow to the Heart, with new chapters dropping weekly on Wattpad.
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