Originally posted by Astner
Being a writer myself, I'm curious.
I love stories so when I turned twenty I decided to write a book. There was a news article where Stephen King said he wrote ten pages a day. That's enough to write twelve or so typical length novels or twenty four that come in very close to 50k words.
It also means that you can easily write a book in a year if you can make one page of progress a day.
So that's what I do. I set myself a minimum of one page each day with no roll over into the next day and not including editing unless it makes the page longer. A page here meaning 32 lines and about 350 words.
I've ended up with a series of monster hunter style novellas (~100 pages along side ~50 or ~20 page intercalary short stories filling in background) and a space opera novel about stories/myths (where I ended up discarding half the text when I switched framing devices). All still in progress.
It's a lot of fun, I think, and I pay far more attention when I read books now.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I love stories so when I turned twenty I decided to write a book. There was a news article where Stephen King said he wrote ten pages a day. That's enough to write twelve or so typical length novels or twenty four that come in very close to 50k words.It also means that you can easily write a book in a year if you can make one page of progress a day.
So that's what I do. I set myself a minimum of one page each day with no roll over into the next day and not including editing unless it makes the page longer. A page here meaning 32 lines and about 350 words.
I've ended up with a series of monster hunter style novellas (~100 pages along side ~50 or ~20 page intercalary short stories filling in background) and a space opera novel about stories/myths (where I ended up discarding half the text when I switched framing devices). All still in progress.
It's a lot of fun, I think, and I pay far more attention when I read books now.
Well earlier this year I believed I could finish a half marathon so I signed up for the 2011 San francisco one... I'll tell you later if I do finish it.
If you speak of the true hypotheticals...
Be a card counter and go win some big bucks like those MIT students.. pay off my parents debt for them ... then never gamble again due to my notoriety.
Originally posted by Symmetric ChaosThese days I find short stories much less of a time/energy investment and easier to get published (after amassing, of course, the usual, perfunctory mountain of rejection slips).
Novelist.
Other than that, superhero.I'm still waiting for cosmos-wandering godtech to find and transform me. I may have to settle for embryonic mystic.
Failing any of the above: stand-up comic (I have an unfailing joke with my last name; unfortunately, I'm stumped after that).
Originally posted by Deja~vu
Probably some kind of writer. I've thought I would be great at commercial writing. I have been told that I have great ideas. I think outside the box.I'm kind of an idea person. I'm not sure what kind of title that would be. An Idea person??
That position would be "Marketing Director." Seriously, if you have enough good, creative, and original ideas, you are wanted desperately in that field.