Monday, December 08, 2003
writing a book
I was just thinking that writing a fiction book is much easier than a nonfiction. In writing a fiction novel, you do not need to refer to many references and do much research on each individual sentence or statement that you make. You basically write everything that is in your mind. However, in writing a nonfiction or science book, you have to do so much research on each subject you want to cover in the book and provide reference to each of them. This makes the writing process very lengthy and difficult.
I think this is why there are so many novels and so many people who write novels in a very short period of time. I recently saw a project called nanowrimo in which participants tried to write a 50,000 words novel in a month. This will be a complete book that can be published and sold worldwide. Now, who can write a nonfiction book in a month?
