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12654936 No.12654936 [Reply] [Original]

Philip Roth, at the end of his career, said he wrote a page a day. That's about 330 words. Seems a bit low to me.

>> No.12654941

>>12654936
some people write 5k words a day and its all fucking trash. quality/quantity

but why write when you can just read teh greeks over and over

>> No.12654945

>>12654936

Still about a book a year. More then I write. We can't all be Asimov.

>> No.12654950

It's better to write slowly if it means what you write is actually good as opposed to writing thousands of pages of pure shit

>> No.12655126

>>12654950
Or you could be Balzac or Proust and produce 20+ great pages daily.

>> No.12655136
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>>12655126

but you have to accept that you might not be like Balzac or Proust

>> No.12655138

The man wrote 30 something books so it clearly didnt hurt him much.

Heck he was much more committed to writing then the average author. In his peak he lived like a hermit in the countryside writing a book a year.

We cant all be Updike, and even Updike said he did a page or 2 a day.

I dont know how they do it, it takes me a week to write a poem.

>> No.12655150

>>12655136
And you have to accept that an aspiring writer who can’t even produce more than 500 words in a full day’s work will never get anywhere. "Great" words or not.

>> No.12655156

>>12655150

why not anon?

>> No.12655194

A page a day is perfect. That's like a nice book a year.

>> No.12655203

>>12655156
Because taking the advice of some middling jewish nepotism figure from the end of his career isn't going to sharpen your skillls

>> No.12655217

>>12655203

not an argument anon

>> No.12655221

>>12655150
Well this is pure bullshit. Why would you focus on quantity so much? Why would an author get anywhere simply because he feels like writing a lot in one sitting? It's not an argument.

>> No.12655225

>>12654941
>>12654945
>>12654950
>>12655126
>>12655136
>>12655138
>>12655150
>>12655156
>>12655194
>>12655203
>>12655217
Kill yourselves

>> No.12655237

>>12655217
So your telling me that you don't think that telling an aspiring writer that taking advice to barely practice the craft, from an established figure, at the admitted end of his career, when there's a possibility his identity also helped to bolster his career, is probably a bad idea to become a better writer, is an argument?

>> No.12655239

>>12655237

I think telling aspiring writers to focus on quantity instead of quality is a bad idea yes

Snow Country is a short book but it's very good

>> No.12655240

>>12655239
And how long was kowabunga dude writing before that book was published?

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>>12655240

He wrote it piecemeal over the course of 13 years

>> No.12655256

work on your shit
think about your shit
edit your shit
study your craft
word/page count isn't a totally clear measure of how much work you're putting into it

>> No.12655257

>to be great you must write a lot
Yeah, lol, keep seconding what burgers tell you, kek.

>> No.12655262

>>12655249
Fine we can do it this way
>Kawabata graduated in 1924, by which time he had already caught the attention of Kikuchi Kan and other noted writers and editors through his submissions to Kikuchi's literary magazine, the Bungei Shunju.
>In addition to fiction writing, Kawabata also worked as a reporter, most notably for the Mainichi Shimbun.

>> No.12655282

>>12655257
How do you know whatt it takes to become a great writer? Are you a great writer?

>> No.12655285

>>12655282
Why? Do you know?

>> No.12655288

>>12655221
>500 words
>quantity
You are retarded, is my point.

>> No.12655308

>>12655288
any number is quantity. focusing on the number is focusing on quantity. it seems that you are the retarded person here.

>> No.12655310

>>12655285
Just wondering why I should listen to you.

>> No.12655320

>>12655308
It seems (you) are terribly insecure and can’t write more than 150 words in a full day’s work. Good luck on that writing of yours.

t. published novelist and poet
t. not an anglo

>> No.12655326

>>12655320
I'm pretty sure you're not a published novelist and you're an anglo. You seethe with terrible opinions like a typical burger. The envious, frustrated burger anti-semite who think he's better than Roth because he can pump out 10 pages in one sitting. Pathetic.

>> No.12655341

>>12655326
N’abandonne pas, mon cher. N’abandonne pas. I feel for you dear friend, who actually writes slower than a senior Roth. Impressive.

>> No.12655360

>>12655341
>An obese burger literally drops FOUR french words to pretend that he's a frog in order to distract people from his overflowing plebness, brainletism and antisemitism
Noice

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>>12655341

He wrote Goodbye, Columbus over the space of a few years, he's always been a slow writer. Yet he was more successful than some Bhutanese tennis board poster

>> No.12655366

>>12655360
Anon philip roth isn't literally talking to you

>> No.12655392

>>12655360
Dieu seul sait à quoi vous pouvez bien faire référence, mon cher.

>>12655363
Oh we’re talking about success now ! That’s great ! I thought we were just laughing at how insecure (and unpublished) you guys are.

ps : Goodbye Columbus is a 2nd rate novella btw, nothing to write home about, success or not. Again, one must probably be burger to actually enjoy the Roth.

>> No.12655408

>>12655392
You're the person who is absolutely clueless about literature and butthurt about Roth's success.

>> No.12655413

>>12655392
Go back to r*ddit right now

>> No.12655419

>>12655392

More people have read it than whatever you've wrote

>> No.12655428

>>12655408
I honestly don’t care about success. I thought you were defending some ethical right to slowness and now you’re going on about a writer’s commercial success ? Good for the goy. Surely you’re not worth much, but you can do better than that.

>>12655413
Non merci, mon chou – je ne fréquente pas ce shithole, believe it or not.

>> No.12655436

>>12655408
>>12655419
JK Rowling and Stephanie Meyer are the greatest authors of all time I guess

>> No.12655536

>>12654936
Word count doesnt matter. I write 1K words a day. Some do 2K, 5K