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The site says most of their submissions are 100 double spaced pages. That's about 25,000 words. That's some pretty concentrated writing after editing.
It means one has to write about full time to meet that deadline with an edited submission, although it looks like there can be teams of two authors.
My writing rate (figured out after two 90K+ drafts of novels this year including NaNo) is approximately 1,200 words per hour. That's not edited, but with an outline of some sort guiding the work.
quote:My writing rate (figured out after two 90K+ drafts of novels this year including NaNo) is approximately 1,200 words per hour.
You liar. I bet you your novels write themselves. You look at the screen without even touching it and your computer just starts summoning the words from the nether. Aren't I right!?
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I saw the beginning of a movie last night called the Kovak Box. The MC is a SF writer. The movie starts with him writing on a plane and fantasizing about a man writing in a few rows ahead of them where he has this appendage coming out of his abdomen (it looked like a pulsating intestine) and plugged directly into his laptop.
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I don't like it. Creating a good story is not about doing it fast, it's about doing it good. I guess I'm not very inclined to these "write when you're ordered to" challenges.
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OK, I think I've got it figured out. It's the sports channel, right?
Owasm said in the "where do you like to write" thread that he watches sports late into the night when he writes. I think the sports channel is beaming words into the computer..... Now if only that worked for cooking shows....
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I actually did once fall asleep at the keyboard with the TV on and I transcribed (not perfectly mind you) what the TV was saying. It was kind of odd to read about the British royal family in the middle of a paper about Andrew Jackson.
To get this done I would have to staple myself to the chair and write in my sleep, which usually turns out odd at best. (see above.)
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