• Flying Squid
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    17 months ago

    Stephen King claims he writes 2000 words a day.

    R. L. Stein supposedly wrote a new (admittedly short) novel every two weeks.

    This Spanish romance novelist apparently wrote over 4000 novels in her lifetime.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corín_Tellado

    So sure, why not 80 technical papers in 2.5 years?

      • Flying Squid
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        37 months ago

        Successful writers generally don’t just make stuff up. They do plenty of research.

        • pflanzenregal
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          77 months ago

          You can’t just compare creative writing to writing a paper.

          • Flying Squid
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            -47 months ago

            True, but you can compare writing 4000 novels a year with being able to write 80 papers a few pages long in 2.5 and say that both are possible.

            • @[email protected]
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              7 months ago

              He didn’t write all those papers. He put his name on them. He also finds it worth his time to publicly argue with a pig in shit, so there’s that.

            • @candybrie
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              7 months ago

              The writing of the paper is generally a trivial part of the work. Each technical paper is supposed to be a succinct summary of months or years of technical work.