Author Michael Moorecock has been writinc science fiction and fantasy adventure novels for over 60 years under multiple pen names, and his works such as his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné have been a major influence in the world of fiction since the 60s. Among his writings Moorcock has much advice for aspiring authors, including how to write a novel in three days. He begins with the generalization: "If you're going to do a piece of work in three days, you have to have everything properly prepared."
Getting into further detail, Moorecock goes on to suggest the formulas for such quickly written works. "[The formula is] The Maltese Falcon. Or the Holy Grail. You use the quest theme, basically. In The Maltese Falcon it's a lot of people after the same thing, which is the Black Bird. In Mort D'Arthur it's also a lot of people after the same thing, which is the Holy Grail. That's the formula for Westerns too: everybody's after the gold of El Dorado or whatever." Further elaborating: "The formula depends on that sense of a human being up against superhuman forces, whether it's Big Business, or politics, or supernatural Evil, or whatever. The hero is fallible in their terms, and doesn't really want to be mixed up with them. He's always just about to walk out when something else comes along that involves him on a personal level."
More can be found within the pages of Michael Moorcock: Death Is No Obstacle, a series of interviews conducted by Colin Greenland.
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