U.S. novelist Walter Mosley, who is most widely known for his crime fiction, says if you’ve got a novel in you, write it. Mosley, 54, will next year release a 100-page book called “This Year You Write Your Novel” giving people advice on how to write a novel in a year.
Q: You produce about three or four books a year. How do you approach your writing?
A: “When I wake up, the first thing I do is to write for two to three hours. The ideas are unconscious. Every time you spend two or three hours powerfully creating you set off all the depth chargers in your conscience that you are unaware of. It has always been the case for me.”
Q: What tips do you give people?
A: “You have to write every day — for at least one-and-a-half hours but the ideal is three. You have to write in an unrestricted fashion. Don’t procrastinate or feel guilty about the people you are writing about in the book. You have to be able to say things you really feel.”
Read the Yahoo News interview here.