How long does it normally take to finish a novel that is about 150-200 pages lon

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   Y2Gposted 12 years ago

   How long does it normally take to finish a novel that is about 150-200 pages long?

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   JamesPoppellposted 12 years ago

   If I am reading it I can finish it in a few uninterrupted hours. I do not know how long it would take me to write it because I have never tried it.

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   LABrashearposted 12 years ago

   Nice catch JamesPoppell!  I thought Y2G was talking about writing one.  I guess it does depend on if you are writing or reading.  Reading, it depends on my interest level in the book.
   
   On writing, I would say it depends on your inspiration and motivation.  I wrote a 55K word novel in a month, but I have another that I've been working on for about a year now.  The first was very inspired and just flowed.  The one I'm working on now...obviously I'm struggling with.

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   Y2Gposted 12 years ago

   Thanks for the responses. I was referring to writing, not reading, but it's fine if you answer that as well.

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   Amanda Beck Mauckposted 12 years ago

   Reading takes me a few hours over the course of a week. I have a child and busy home life. But writing 200 page book I think is about 50,000 words...It takes about an hour and a half for a normal typist to type 800-1200 words. Based on that I would say 55-60 hours of continued writing you should have typed out a rough draft. But who knows how long it really takes. Too many outside factors. If you sat hour after hour and didn't stop working you could be done in a week. But that is if everything (EVERYTHING) was figured out and went according to plan..

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   singleapleposted 12 years ago

   When it comes to writing a novel - take a look at this http://singleaple.hubpages.com/hub/Fox- … hort-story
   
   I think you will be surprised at the answer given in the very first sentence.

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   MickSposted 12 years ago

   It depends on your speed of writing, imagination, whether you're writing or reading, and whether you mean 150-200 published pages or standard A4 paper with all the correct margins and double spaced with something like Times New Roman double spaced, which will contain about 200 words.

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   brianjanuaryposted 10 years ago

   It really does depend. I do an enormous amount of research--even for novellas--so that adds a lot of time. If you outline and plan the plot in advance you can save a lot of time. Some authors think 1K words a day is fantastic, while others don't stop until they reach 10K--but then some writers have more available time to write than others.

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