Fastest speed you ever wrote a book

[intrestingca]

I wrote a book in 3 days

[frankyjee]

good:)

[Fran]

I wrote a book in 3 days

I'm sure it was a bestseller too

[StephenKingman]

100 years....beat that!

[Butterbescotch]

3 Days? Wow that's fast. But I doubt if it is any good. No offense but (although I don't write a book) I know it needs a lot of revising. If you finish a draft on 3 days, but a book, erm. I digress.

[Maud Fitch]

Please tell us what sort of book you wrote in three days. If you used a voice recorder, maybe, but it still has to be typed up and edited. Even my short stories take longer than that!

[MichelleIsenhoff]

Two months. Of course that's not counting the prep work I did on it beforehand, or the occasional rewrites over the next six months... Doggone it, I'm still not happy with that one! Okay, okay, so it was only my fastest rough draft.

[Jimrada]

I wrote my novel, "The Rain Man," from planning to final draft in about 9 months while working a full-time job.

[Timpane]

If you utilized a voice recorder, perhaps, but it still has to be drafted up and edited. Even my short tales take longer than that

[mouseofcards89]

Three months.

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

Fastest...5 years from idea to published...longest...20+ years from idea to published...

Three days? Even my poetry takes longer than that @@

[mrjerseys]

I wrote a book in 5 days

[louisgeorge]

So do you guys think if you write a book in 3 days or 5 days,does effect its quality or idea ????

[Fran]

Fastest...5 years from idea to published...longest...20+ years from idea to published...

Three days? Even my poetry takes longer than that @@

A shopping list would take me longer that that

[tbughi1]

eh, kind of a long story. It was my first book. I spent 3 years just thinking about it, never putting a single word down, just drawing the story in my head. Then I spent my last semester in college writing the first 20k words of it, so about 4 months. I graduated and stumbled upon a new author competition for unpublished authors that had a deadline two weeks later.

I brought the hammer down and wrote that last 60k words in 1 week, then spent the second week editing it. I submitted it and the "competition" turned out to be a scam. They sent back the reply of "We loved it! Please send us $1000 so we can publish it!" and I was like, "Ha! Yeah, no, I'll pass."

As far as quality, even I can't read it. I get to the second page now-in-days and I want to delete the whole thing. I just can't bring myself to do it though. Even though it's terrible, it was the first book I ever wrote, and one of the very few achievements in my life that I actually care about. I'd been wanting to write a book since I was 14 and this terrible block of words broke the dam. I've since written three other books and I find them to be far better, but I never would have done it without the first.