Topic: Time required to write famous books
Here's what it took to write major books, by the Huffington Post. A really interest likeartical.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how … 8b2b5569d2
- Norm d'Plume
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- rhiannon
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Re: Time required to write famous books
I'll check it out. I know that Ayn Rand took 10 years to write Atlas Shrugged (not counting the complete, detailed, almost line by line outline she began with). Rex Stout could crank out a Nero Wolf story in a weekend.
- Janet Taylor-Perry
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Re: Time required to write famous books
Well, Tolkien's 16 years was a trilogy.
- Charles_F_Bell
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Norm d'Plume wrote:
Here's what it took to write major books, by the Huffington Post. A really interest likeartical.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how … 8b2b5569d2
Leave it to the HuffPo to present "facts" in as convoluted manner as possible.
Like the "fact" of the diversity of its editorial board:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/people-a … his-tweet/
all white women ages 25-35 (maybe one oriental asian or mestizo in the back).
- Charles_F_Bell
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Janet Taylor-Perry wrote:
Well, Tolkien's 16 years was a trilogy.
The entire premise behind the assertion is ridiculous. Catcher in the Rye - 10 years & Les Miserables in 12 years are "facts" meaningless without context. What are we suppose to take from this; that, for example, Salinger was a slow word-per-unit-of-time writer and Hugo was fast?
