Thirty Years: Wow!
Recently, author Kate Forsyth was asked how long it took her to write a book. This is her answer:
“It depends on the length of the book & on what challenges are thrown up by each story … One of my books took thirty years of writing, re-writing, discarding it, resurrecting it, re-writing it again…”
Needless to say I found this immensely reassuring, at the same time as I was thinking, “thirty years: wow!” Then again, the WALL world has been with me for at least that long (in fact, it’s longer), but I didn’t embark on writing it until years later.