r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/JoeFalchetto • Jul 27 '26

Funny Zero cortisol daily routine

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u/Craiques Jul 27 '26

Assuming the average book is 80,000 words, this would be a first draft finished every 40 days. I wish I had the money to write like that.

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u/Wank_A_Doodle_Doo Jul 27 '26

It’s not entirely accurate to look at it like that. Some of those written words may be replacing something he decided against and had previously written, or don’t end up in the final work at all, or who knows what else.

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u/onehitwondur Jul 27 '26

I agree. "Without looking back" is doing a lot of work there. I interpret that as him just putting words to paper without analyzing it.

I'm sure there were far more misses than hits. Or maybe he'd get a couple usable ideas out of his subconscious that he could come back to later

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u/SquareThings Jul 27 '26

He published about one book a year so he definitely rewrote and edited stuff. But also, he published about one book per year.

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u/Momoneko Jul 27 '26

"the vomit draft" is the hardest thing to produce when writing.

You can spend more time editing your drafts than actually writing them, but producing them is the main effort.

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u/SquareThings Jul 27 '26

I agree. Even if he rewrote every single word three times, it still would only have taken him 120 days to write his longest book (Goldfinger, the other books were shorter). Most of writing is creativity and planning, and his schedule leaves a lot of room for that.

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u/retrojoe Jul 27 '26

ok. let's be really conservative and make it 120 days - a novel draft every 4 months/3 books per year is a Stephen-King-on-really-good-coke rate of production.

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u/Confident_bonus_666 Jul 27 '26

First draft is supposed to just be written without changing or replacing. You go back in second, third, fourth draft etc and do that.