Comments on: Marking a Writer’s Pace

By: Matt Forbeck

Matt Forbeck — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:33:26 +0000

In reply to Bill King. For sure. It was the reporter that used that word, though, not the writer. :)

By: Matt Forbeck

Matt Forbeck — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:52:47 +0000

In reply to M T MacKenzie. Anything that reduces reader frustration is a good thing, I think.

By: Matt Forbeck

Matt Forbeck — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:49:36 +0000

In reply to Michael R. Underwood. Exactly. It's just taking the brakes off of those who can go faster. Speed's not as important as quality, but there's no reason to artificially limit the speed.

By: Bill King

Bill King — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:26:13 +0000

I confess I laughed when I saw this article as well. 2000 words a day is what I picked as a nice gentle pace I could keep up on a regular basis without too much strain despite assorted health issues. I would not describe it as brutal.

By: M T MacKenzie

M T MacKenzie — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:14:14 +0000

I can see a fair few folk having a chuckle at this one.

As a hobby I can manage to rattle out two books a year in my spare time the evenings.

All I can say it is great that we can buy several books a year from the same author now, waiting a year between instalments of a series was never a popular choice for fans and we always hear how the great pulp writers of the 20’s and 30’s knocked out 5 to 6k words of fiction a day on a typewriter of all things.

I pity these authors who battle to finish one book a year, must a struggle for the poor souls.

By: Michael R. Underwood

Michael R. Underwood — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:11:29 +0000

For writers that are capable of producing more, I think that publishers should definitely make use of their productivity. Full-time writers and/or writers that have a fast drafting process should benefit from that increased productivity. I hope that the increase in speed doesn’t bite writers who aren’t as fast or don’t have as much time for drafting.

Right now, the amount of time I’d have to spend to write two books a year on top of my day job would leave me without any time to live, so I don’t. Hopefully, the chance to sell books with an accelerated release schedule will make it easier for some authors who are close to being able to go part-time at work or full-time writing to take that plunge and succeed.