Sometimes before, sometimes later, that’s just usual. I fiddle around with email and whatever for awhile in the morning… But I’m usually in work mode by 8. ‘I’m an early riser (wish I wasn’t, but wiring). If either or both of them insisted we brainstorm, I will be forced to kill them until they were dead.’ 4. I love my agent, my editor, and respect them just as much as I love them. If my name is on the book, I wrote it…I don’t use ghosts, co-authors, I don’t have collaborators… I don’t brainstorm with other writers, with my editor, or my agent on storylines. ‘I do not, never have, never will use ghostwriters… My work is my work, start to finish. And again, how do I know until I know?’ 3. Some of it’s spent looking stuff up because how do I know until I know? I don’t use researchers because they’d annoy me, want to talk to me, expect me to be able to tell them what I was looking for. Some of that is staring into space–writing requires this, or mine does. ‘I don’t miss deadlines. In the normal course of events, I work six to eight hours a day. She is a great believer in sticking to deadlines. I have a fast writing pace–also just wiring.’ 2. I will, if necessary or I just feel the need, put in a few hours on the weekend. Not everyone is half as lucky to be able to make their living doing something they love.Įvery day is, at this point in my life and career, mostly a regular work week. It’s just my job, and I’m very fortunate to love my job. Roberts believes in writing every day. She says: We’ve taken some of the best snippets, but click on the link if you want to read the full post.

We found this post on Nora Roberts’s blog on how she works, and we wanted to share some of her tips with you. She was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. (Click here for more interesting facts on the author.)

Her novels have spent a combined 220 weeks (nearly four years) at the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list.

Robb title released in 2020 hit the New York Times bestseller list, continuing a streak that started in 1999.

Her latest novel is Legacy.Įvery Nora Roberts and J.D. More than 500 million copies of her books in print. Nora Roberts, born 10 October 1950, is an American author of more than 225 romance novels, including The Liar, Sacred Sins, and The MacGregors trilogy. In this post, we share 12 tips from legendary American author Nora Roberts on how she writes.

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