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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Please provide me some of that unlimited amount of creativity.
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I'd love some of it myself. But just because I'm not capable of writing like that doesn't mean no one else is capable of it.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Not all of it, but their best works are often the ones that took the longest and had the most research done for it (especially in fantasy and science fiction).
And THAT is the stuff that gets reread over and over again; the works that took a huge amount of research, time, and creativity. Nobody is going to reread the entire Harlequin oevre every year.
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How do you know that? Do you ask the author how long it took them to research/plot/write/edit a particular novel? Do you know these authors personally that you know how long it takes them to produce a novel? Or do you "just know" that it took them a "long time" to put it together? Because I call bullshit. Yes, there are some novels that when you read them all you can think is "this was just slapped together and tossed out there". Most novels, there's no way of knowing how long it took the author to write them. Plus if an author frequently writes in the same genre or series, they typically keep all of their notes and research from previous projects so that they do not have to keep researching the same information over and over.
And comparing rereading a single author to an entire genre is again disingenuous. No one rereads an entire genre unless they have a very very narrowly defined genre. Plus the OP stated they can reread most of the books by the three authors they listed cover-to-cover in just a day. Each book in day, not all of them in a day. Whether that's hyperbole on the OP's part only the OP can tell us. But based on that, yes, they could easily reread all of Lackey, McCaffrey and Heinlein in less than a year. Assuming they actually do reread
all of them. And if they do reread all of them that's their choice.