Limitations on tanning. The process of tanning, known as melanogenesis, may take up to 48 hours to start. Therefore, it's recommended that you allow that amount of time to pass between sessions in a tanning bed. Businesses will not allow you to tan for more than 30 minutes in a bed, and less than that for certain beds.
It took Tolstoy six years to write War and Peace, beginning in 1862.
Tolkein wrote The Lord of the Rings as one novel, which contains about 670,000 words. It took him eleven years, which is 245 words each working day, or a little less than a typed page. Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Edmund Morris writes about 300 words a day, and says he will labor long over a single sentence.