David Farland is the 11-time New York Times bestselling author with over 100 million books sales.
As a college student studying pre-medical microbiology, David Farland was torn: He also wanted to be a writer. So he decided to be a doctor who writes on the side.
Fortunately, he soon found out that the desire to write was overwhelming. At the same time, his interest in medicine waned. “I found my biochemistry classes to be so boring, I could hardly stay awake in them,” he says.
As David considered writing more seriously, he heard that the average writer spends seven years learning how to write well enough to get published. He wondered, was it possible to learn to write that well in less than seven years? Could it be done in one year?
Taking cues from his scientific studies, David decided he would apply the same logical approach to the study of publishing. He developed many theories that have informed his approach to writing, including the Stress Induction/Reduction Theory of Storytelling that suggests that stories serve a physiological need in readers.