Furthermore, as everyone knows, when you’re not in the mood for it, porn is gross. After the first few hours, it was also unendurably boring. Nonetheless it made me horny, in a downtrodden, creepy way. I was disgusted and horny and disgusted by my horniness. I was hornily falling asleep in my chair. I was hornily staring out the window and hornily wondering how I got to this point.
This sounds suspiciously like she edged her way through the project. If that worked, she should have said so, great tip!
Dirty little secret: Writing is not difficult, if you have any aptitude for it at all. Even at the pace descibed (a 100K novel a month) that only comes to about 13 pages a day, which is less than 2 pages an hour. That requires a blistering typing speed of about four words a minute!
During the height of my career, I managed to output about 600 pages of sexy SF pay copy a year (less than two pages a day), but I did hold down a full-time job, along with family stuff.
You know what’s hard? Writing a thousand 15-page user’s manuals user’s manuals every year! Also part of my sordid literary past…
What time of day do you write?
I prefer to write in the morning when I can. When I was working full time, that was 45 minutes between getting up and shower/depart. Nowadays, it’s usually a couple of hours mid-morning when something else hasn’t come up.
Florence King’s novel ‘When Sisterhood Was in Flower’ has a protagonist who ekes out a living writing porn. There is a classic passage wherein the woman writes a description of eating a boiled egg, written in the style of pornography.
I remember that. She used the term [F-word]y Fudging the describe how she could stretch out the word count. I’m of the Hemingway school of thought. I write everything I can think of, then strike out anything that seems like it won’t be missed. I once edited a 100,000 word novel manuscript down to a 15,000 word novelette, because I couldn’t sell the novel, but wanted to be paid for something. It was humbling to realize even I didn’t miss the 85,000 deleted words.
The easiest way to write is to copy someone else’s ideas. When I found out that Robert Lynn Asprin had writer’s block, I thought “how hard could it be?” and started writing a story using his characters and style.
I wrote fifty thousand words in one day.
I really should have sent it to him. But it worked out ok, he got over the block and gave me more Myth adventures.
105 words a minute makes you an excellent typist!
It just poured out almost as fast as I could type, but I’m only about 70 wpm. I spent about 16 hours in front of my computer that day.
The thing about writing is, if you just do it, it gets done. I limp along at 25wpm, writing no more than an hour a day (if I’m lucky!), and yet the books got done somehow. I had a hilarious on-line set-to several years ago about writing productivity vs. typing speed. People were claiming they could type faster than what’s in Guiness (despite never having written a publishable novel), and a number of folk stopped speaking to me forever because I laughed at their claims of type 250wpm. I was a difficult child.
I used to write a lot of porn about Hillary Clinton, Janet Reno, and Helen Thomas. The military used it at Gitmo.
I thought they banned torture?
Here’s what I think about writer’s block: You notice nobody ever talks about programmer’s block? Programmer is a job. (And I’ve been both, of course, so I have a clue.)
This sounds suspiciously like she edged her way through the project. If that worked, she should have said so, great tip!
Dirty little secret: Writing is not difficult, if you have any aptitude for it at all. Even at the pace descibed (a 100K novel a month) that only comes to about 13 pages a day, which is less than 2 pages an hour. That requires a blistering typing speed of about four words a minute!
During the height of my career, I managed to output about 600 pages of sexy SF pay copy a year (less than two pages a day), but I did hold down a full-time job, along with family stuff.
You know what’s hard? Writing a thousand 15-page user’s manuals user’s manuals every year! Also part of my sordid literary past…
What time of day do you write?
I prefer to write in the morning when I can. When I was working full time, that was 45 minutes between getting up and shower/depart. Nowadays, it’s usually a couple of hours mid-morning when something else hasn’t come up.
Florence King’s novel ‘When Sisterhood Was in Flower’ has a protagonist who ekes out a living writing porn. There is a classic passage wherein the woman writes a description of eating a boiled egg, written in the style of pornography.
I remember that. She used the term [F-word]y Fudging the describe how she could stretch out the word count. I’m of the Hemingway school of thought. I write everything I can think of, then strike out anything that seems like it won’t be missed. I once edited a 100,000 word novel manuscript down to a 15,000 word novelette, because I couldn’t sell the novel, but wanted to be paid for something. It was humbling to realize even I didn’t miss the 85,000 deleted words.
The easiest way to write is to copy someone else’s ideas. When I found out that Robert Lynn Asprin had writer’s block, I thought “how hard could it be?” and started writing a story using his characters and style.
I wrote fifty thousand words in one day.
I really should have sent it to him. But it worked out ok, he got over the block and gave me more Myth adventures.
105 words a minute makes you an excellent typist!
It just poured out almost as fast as I could type, but I’m only about 70 wpm. I spent about 16 hours in front of my computer that day.
The thing about writing is, if you just do it, it gets done. I limp along at 25wpm, writing no more than an hour a day (if I’m lucky!), and yet the books got done somehow. I had a hilarious on-line set-to several years ago about writing productivity vs. typing speed. People were claiming they could type faster than what’s in Guiness (despite never having written a publishable novel), and a number of folk stopped speaking to me forever because I laughed at their claims of type 250wpm. I was a difficult child.
I used to write a lot of porn about Hillary Clinton, Janet Reno, and Helen Thomas. The military used it at Gitmo.
I thought they banned torture?
Here’s what I think about writer’s block: You notice nobody ever talks about programmer’s block? Programmer is a job. (And I’ve been both, of course, so I have a clue.)