Re: Curiosity - how fast do professional writers write?
- From: Alan Hope <not.alan.hope@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:59:08 +0200
chris_tine49@xxxxxxxxxxx goes:
>John wrote:
>> Thanks ... so 500 words in 30 minutes then.
>Yes. But that doesn't mean you are done. For most people, writing
>includes rewriting. Most writers need to go back and edit those 500
>words.
>How long that takes depends on how important the subject is to you and
>how much you care about the message the audience receives, whether you
>are going for "truth" or effect, whether it's all about you or all
>about something else.
>So you have to decide if your blog is writing to show off (most are) or
>writing with a mission other than self-expression or drawing attention
>to yourself.
Very good writers, writing within their fields of expertise or their
comfort zones, barely need to edit at all.
Sometimes it is just a matter of sticking some words down. Of course,
a lifetime of sticking words down prepares one for the task.
--
AH
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