Georgette Heyer began writing April Lady after a bad bout of illness and ongoing stress with the people she now considered her greatest enemies on the planet: Britain’s Inland Revenue. (Some of you may sympathize.) Convinced that Inland Revenue was deliberately finding obscure laws solely to make her life a misery, she also found that in order to pay her growing tax bills, she had to continue to write more of her bestselling novels, diverting still more attention away from another book she was hoping would prove a masterpiece, My Lord John. Bowing to pressure from taxes and publishers alike, she dashed out April Lady in just a few months, telling her agent that the book was terrible. She was not too far off, although the book was also a bestseller.
[Using cant and language from previous books to write your novel for you, even when, or perhaps especially when, you really don’t feel like writing.]