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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
It's simple enough. Some authors can write very rapidly and still produce work. Others can't, if they write too fast, the quality of their writing suffers. Thus, if they want to write quality work, they must not write too fast.
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Can you give an example of someone who wrote 3 -4 books per year which ended up being mediocre, then switched to 1 book per year and it was quality work?
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Originally Posted by Hellmark
because the alternative is that they start going faster than they can really handle, and produce crap work. He's just saying it is best to go at what ever rate gives you the best quality for the highest output
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That would make sense if they actually test to get to their best rate.
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Originally Posted by tompe
If Asimov had taken more time to write his fiction maybe his fiction books would have been more readable. They are very flat and read kind like non-fiction. More effort spent on characterisation and language style would have made the books more readable today.
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It's science fiction. Have you read science non-fiction?