[Katsunami]

So... then please explain to me how someone can write like 500 or even 700+ novels _all by themselves, in one lifetime? I don't see it. Let's just pick some numbers.

- The author reaches the age of 85, in perfect health.
- The author starts writing at age 15.

This is 70 years of writing, or 3.640 weeks.

To be able to write 500 books, one would need to write a book every 7 weeks, 2 days, their entire life, without ever stopping. To write 700 books, you only have 5 weeks, 2 days to write every book. "Works" don't count; those could be short stories of only 5 or 10 pages. A good author can write one or two each week, so writing a hundred a year is possible. I'm talking about full length books here.

Mercedes Lackey was born in 1950, and is now 65 years old. The oldest work (short story) is "Sword-sworn", published in 1985. At that point she was 35 years old. Therefore she has been publishing books for 30 years, or 1560 weeks.

If she wrote 64 books by herself, she only has about 24 weeks, or less than half a year to write those. She has to do some work for the other 55 novels as well.

So while it is technically feasible, I don't think anyone can keep up a pace like that for 30 years without ever stopping; let alone a pace 5 times as fast for 70 years.