Great Blog Post by Johnny B. Truant on Writing and Reaching the Dream of a Novel.

http://johnnybtruant.com/14-tips-for-writing-a-book-in-29-days-and-then-doing-it-again-the-next-month/

There's a countdown in this blogpost in which he lays out things that he's learned writing a few novels. Since he's written this he's written several more best selling kindle books and I know that at least one of them is still ranked somewhere in the three thousand rank (that's pretty good).