The Way the Future Was: a Memoir
“In the minds of most civilians, the life of a writer has got to be glamorous and exciting. Well, it is, some of the time. A writer often gets to meet special people, visit fascinating places, do exciting things. But none of these occur when he is actively engaged at his employment. When he is writing, he is the nearest thing to a vegetable that you will find registered to vote. He sits.
He doesn't even have the apparent function of pushing typewriter keys most of the time, because during most o...f that sitting time the activity is all internal and thus invisible.
Let me show you the numbers: Any jackleg typist can manage seventy-five words a minute. If you type at that rate from nine to five every day, with time out for lunch and a ten-minute break at the end of each hour for flexing the fingers, you will produce the equivalent of two 75,000-word novels in every five-day week.
It is an observed fact that writers do not ordinarily produce two novels a week. Most don't even manage two a year.MoreLess
He doesn't even have the apparent function of pushing typewriter keys most of the time, because during most o...f that sitting time the activity is all internal and thus invisible.
Let me show you the numbers: Any jackleg typist can manage seventy-five words a minute. If you type at that rate from nine to five every day, with time out for lunch and a ten-minute break at the end of each hour for flexing the fingers, you will produce the equivalent of two 75,000-word novels in every five-day week.
It is an observed fact that writers do not ordinarily produce two novels a week. Most don't even manage two a year.MoreLess
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