What's the general difference in contract terms between tech books and novels? Or are they fairly similar?
Also curious about the differences in how you do the writing.
Also curious about the differences in how you do the writing.
The differences in how I write are pretty epic. For a tech book I'll work out a very detailed outline (down to subheadings within each chapter) in advance, and need larger slabs of time to write to maintain my train of thought. For novels I tend to work from a much lighter-weight outline (major plot points, not chapter by chapter) but spend a bunch of time in advance thinking through the characters and world-building.