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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Neither are the prolific authors limited by the publisher's schedules.
And there's a lot more of those than people realize: an experienced, disciplined author can easily put out 2000 (publishable) words a day which, working just 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, comes out to six 80k novels a year."
I've written eight books. On a good day I can write one thousand, even two thousand words. But I need to review and revise these words later. And I certainly can't keep writing that quantity of words for more than three or four days in a row.
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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There are actually writers out there who put that many books. Most of the time they are called hacks, just churning out verbage without regard to quality. I bought books by some of them. There are a few quality authors who are able to generate a lot of works. Issac Asimov wrote or edited some 500+ books in his life, but he's very much the exception to the rule. A prolific quality author might kick out a couple of books a year, but even they tend to hit dry spells over time.
If you look at most quality authors, there just aren't that many who can put out more than 3 to 4 non pulp style books a year and it has nothing to do with the evil publishers' schedules.