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Originally Posted by Nabeel
The type of industrial production that you're describing sounds like a recipe for intellectual suicide.
PS - Sorry - can't get the 'quote' facility to work.
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No worries.
That level of production isn't "industrial", that is actually typical for established professional writers. Even under tradpub rules is isn't hard to find authors doing two *big* titles a year with each of two separate publishers and a handful of shorts on the side to keep busy.
"Industrial" would be one of the monsters in Robert Silverberg or Dean Wesley Smith territory.
I'll see if I can dig up a column I ran into recently about "pulp speed writing".
Edit: check the comment here:
http://www.thepassivevoice.com/12/20...ng-pulp-speed/
And at the source:
http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/the-n...ng-pulp-speed/
Historically, a lot of writers under-produced what their talent might have allowed for lack of a market because of the bottlenecks in publisher schedules and shelf space.
Just look at Silverberg's *pseudonymous* titles, in addition to his output under his own name:
http://www.majipoor.com/pseudolist.php
Now that is industrial writing.
And the actual pulp writers of the 30's were even more prodigious.
Walter Gibson could put out 10,000 publication-ready pages, er...
words a day at his peak.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_B._Gibson