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Accountability, author's timecard, word count written, feeling lonely out there?
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: jeno on September 23, 2010, 08:26:29 PM ---I heard that Brandon Sanderson can get 20,000 a day when he's finishing a novel. :-\ I'm really not sure I believe that.
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Something to remember is that he also doesn't have a day job, and while he's got children, I believe his wife keeps them from bothering him. And going by the times on his tweets, he does a lot of it late at night. If I had a whole day to be able to write, I could probably get between 5 and 10k, depending on how well the scene goes. I could guess more toward the end because I usually have a pretty good idea of that when I start.
prophet224:
Actually, Sanderson teaches Creative Writing at BYU, where he got his degree.
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/article/52/EUOLogy-On-Pullman-and-Censorship
I believe that was in early 2009, but another author mentioned it this year, talking about how few teachers are well-published.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: prophet224 on September 23, 2010, 09:43:49 PM ---Actually, Sanderson teaches Creative Writing at BYU, where he got his degree.
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/article/52/EUOLogy-On-Pullman-and-Censorship
I believe that was in early 2009, but another author mentioned it this year, talking about how few teachers are well-published.
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Yeah, but that's not quite the same as a 9-5 day job. Plus I'm not sure how long he's had that job.
jeno:
And I could have sworn he took the year off to write full time.
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: jeno on September 23, 2010, 10:07:08 PM ---And I could have sworn he took the year off to write full time.
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uhm, possibly paid sabatical? Wouldn't that be nice?
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