What kind of a writer are you? And I don’t mean what genre do you write. I mean, what’s your pattern for writing? Are you a weekend writer, writing for a few hours each weekend? Are you more of a tortoise kind of writer. Slow and steady gets the book written, like writing an hour each day unless something major comes up. Are you a hare writer? You block off a weekend to bang out as many words as you can in forty-eight hours.

And your writing pattern can change based on the circumstances of life, if you write long enough. So let me know what kind of a writer you are and if that pattern has changed over the years.

Here are this month’s other tips on what you need before you start your novel.