Tip #1

WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE!

Write everyday...

Hemingway wrote 500 words a day..

Sure sometimes you just don't have the energy or inspiration to know where to start but to write just 500 words a day would mean a first draft for a 400 page novel of 100,000 words could be written in 6 months. 

So with that thought in mind, better still, write 1000 per day and have it ready in 3 months :-)

True writing is about getting the story down, not the research or the outline, but the words that make it onto the page.  The only way to start and finish is to make it part of your daily ritual..

Now to take my own advice and write up a storm!