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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 21:34:58 JST Charlie Stross

   #WritersCoffeeClub 27: How consistent are you with your writing? Daily? Weekly? Whenever you get the chance?

   I am sixty. I began writing seriously when I was 14. For a decade I had an iron rule to write for at least an hour every day. So ... about 4000 hours? It was a learning period.

   I hit burnout badly in 2019 then caught COVID in 2022 and since then I've been very erratic, but I'm still aiming to average at least a novel a year. (I spend much more time thinking and much less time typing.)

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 06:22:29 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Mark Pesce

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     I am not!

     In my best year EVER for fiction, I wrote about 40% of one Harry Turtledove. And Harry in turn wrote about 33% of one Seanan Mcguire. And Seanan is not the only author who writes that fast (she's just unusual because she's fast and *good*).

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     Mark Pesce (mpesce@arvr.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 06:22:30 JST Mark Pesce

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     @cstross You're incredibly prolific by anyone's measure, sir