I imagine the reason a lot of people who want to write a book never get around to it (or never finish) because of one reason, it's a huge commitment. When I started writing in high school I spent nearly every night from ~6pm to ~2am on my computer. Even with that much of a commitment it still took me years to get a full length (and admittedly amateur) novel strung together. It's taken me years on top of that to get to a point where I'm starting over.
According to Stephen King it takes 1,000,000 words before you're out of the training phase. That's a paraphrase, but you get the point. That works out to more than 300 words a day for 10 years. Other sources will say it takes 10,000 hours. That's an hour a day for 27 years, or 8 hours a day for 3 1/2 years. That's a huge time commitment. Check out this blog post for a more in depth break down.
It's doable. You just have to be committed to making it happen. I found this blog post to be encouraging, somewhat.
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