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Subject:Re: Typist First or Writer? From:Robert Plamondon <robert -at- PLAMONDON -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 10 Oct 1996 06:24:19 PDT
Michael Wing writes:
> Personally, I only spend 20% of my time writing. I cannot speak for
> other writers; however, I suspect many have similar tasks. The
> following are some of the tasks which consume the other 80% of my time:
[...]
Writing isn't typing. To give an example from another writing field,
typing a 100,000 word novel at 60 words per minute takes less than a
week, while most successful writers of 100,000 word novels take ten
to a hundred times longer than that.
All the research and head-banging counts as "writing," even though it's
done away from the keyboard.
-- Robert
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