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Pulp writer Walter B. Gibson (known for The Shadow, among other works) famously kept a typewriter in every room of his house, with a story in progress on each o
by Turing_Machine 4y ago
Pulp writer Walter B. Gibson (known for The Shadow, among other works) famously kept a typewriter in every room of his house, with a story in progress on each one.
At his peak, according to Wikipedia, he was cranking out about 1.7 million words per year.
- bombcar 4y agoAbout 5k words a day, or about 15-20 pages a day (for normal novel-size pages) - call it a chapter. Pretty impressive. (Intentionally does NOT calculate the number of words posted to various Internet forums over the years)