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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoStephen King claims he writes 2000 words a day.
R. L. Stein supposedly wrote a new (admittedly short) novel every two weeks.
This Spanish romance novelist apparently wrote over 4000 novels in her lifetime.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corín_Tellado
So sure, why not 80 technical papers in 2.5 years?
oessessnex@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
It’s easier to write that much if you are just making stuff up…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Successful writers generally don’t just make stuff up. They do plenty of research.
rainerloeten@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You can’t just compare creative writing to writing a paper.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
True, but you can compare writing 4000 novels a year with being able to write 80 papers a few pages long in 2.5 and say that both are possible.