Megan Abbott
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
first draft generally going to take under a year, but then you're revising for yourself.
Then you're revising for your agent.
Then you're revising for your editor.
So you have to, it has to fascinate.
It has to be so rich that it fascinates you.
Not, not that you fascinate yourself, but that you created something.
You fascinate yourself.
Oh, let's own it.
You know, you sort of, the world you created is feels rich enough that you can dance in it for, you know, up to two years for me.
Now, I have friends who write much faster, but I am a fiddler with sentences.
And, you know, I can get lost in the research and have digressions.
But also, I have friends who take them, you know, three, four, five years to write a novel.
And I could not live with anything that long.
So I guess that's in between.
Everyone has their own time.
And your fans appreciate the care you put into it.
I can say this as a fan myself.
Okay, so you mentioned you once taught creative writing.