How do they do it??

I always wonder how novel writers, manage to write tens of chapters, hundreds of pages and thousands of paras. What makes them write so much? What inspires them? What creates thought in them? How do they start their work? How do they go about their work? Well, for a novice like me these are certainly huge questions.

I often read that they take months, sometimes years together to complete a work. It must have been quite an effort, but well worth when it is completed. No wonder they call it "the art of writing". Also a small incident such as dog barking on the road, wind blowing through the half-open window, sound of a pin drop inspires them. Wonderful ways to get inspired isn't it?

There are two kinds of writers; people who write on or about the incidents and the others who stir up their imagination and create a world around the reader and make him a part of it, make him understand it, take him for a ride in it, make him forget about his surroundings. I can only imagine how difficult and how wonderful the latter is.

Although, I am not an avid reader of books, I admire the feeling that gets generated when I bury my head into the book. Imagine how satisfied a writer would have felt after the completion of a work.

Having written this much on writing itself......I am actually feeling very good.