Writing a novel consistently tops the list of unrealized new year’s resolutions, alongside losing weight and drinking less.
But if you do decide to have a go this January, see what’s worked for famous authors in the past, or skip down to read the nine most common follies to avoid when starting off.
It doesn’t matter whether you work best first thing in the morning or last thing at night, the key is to work out when you are at your most productive, then keep to that schedule.
For writers including Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway and Kurt Vonnegut, this meant getting up early, around dawn, putting in a hard shift before lunch then relaxing, editing or doing other work for the rest of the day… or in the case of Hemingway drinking.
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