How to write?

I was happy to see an article in one of the women's fortnightly in Kannada giving tips for good and interesting reading. Well, quite long ago my favourite author Sri. Yandamoori Veerendranath had written a book called 'how to write popular novels, Dramas, short stories ?' In fact it even gives tips to write screenplay for movies and TV serials. No one probably thought in those lines those days. He even conducted workshops for writers. One of them became quite popular and wrote some beautiful novels. Some others took theme from him and wrote novels. I too took tips from a renowned editor of a Kannada Weekly who just showed me a news item and asked me to develop a novel. Actually I could write a 160 page novel based on the particular news item. It was not easy because I was enticed by an assistant editor of another popular daily to write it in 3 days! My mother fell ill and hospitalized. At that time I sat the whole night and finished the novel. I even interspersed the novel with the news item based on which I wrote. Those were the days. I have written in 2 days another time. The only condition we have to put ourselves is that we are not going to compromise on the quality no matter how many days you need to complete the book.