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dizzy:
Quote from: Renatus on 2005 October 04, 20:56:22
If you could, that would be awesome, but can you? If you take the leap and try it, I'll applaud you, even if you fall short. If you do it and make it, I'll be impressed, because 1500 to 2000 words a day is all I can usually make unless I chain myself to my computer. If you don't do it and just keep saying that you probably could, I'll continue to roll my eyes. Talk is cheap, you know?
Any fool can write 100,000 words a month, provided that they are literate, don't care about the quality of their material, and have a means of recording their words. There's *nothing* astonishing about it. ::)
Don't believe me? Try checking out fanfiction.net or just peruse this wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_%28writer%29
Ms.Perception:
Hey not everything on fanfiction.net is total crap. :P I mean most of it is but people have to get their feet wet somewhere.
laeshanin:
They most certainly do, and as a past writer of fanfiction (no slash, though), I can tell you it's a good way to start honing your craft. Some is shite, some, on the other hand, is better written than some of the so-called books that are published with regard to whichever show/film they represent... And a few fan writers have made it to the big time. True they aren't developing their own characters, but in other areas of pure entertainment and meeting the need of the public to devour some sort of material that incorporates their favourite characters, they do just fine.
As for writing at that kind of clip, I can only claim to have ever managed a thousand. Any more than that and I'd be screaming to go back and edit. It's then I'd get pedantic... ;)
rohina:
Quote from: dizzy-two on 2005 October 05, 10:57:35
Any fool can write 100,000 words a month, provided that they are literate, don't care about the quality of their material, and have a means of recording their words. There's *nothing* astonishing about it. ::)
And yet, some of the best novels in English are really quite short - nothing like 100,000 words. Size isn't everything.
Hook:
Quote from: rohina on 2005 October 05, 22:28:57
And yet, some of the best novels in English are really quite short - nothing like 100,000 words.
I'm glad you're finally agreeing with dizzy-two.
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Size isn't everything.
That ain't what *I* hoid! <groucho mode off>
Hook
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