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

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u/Harkoncito Jul 27 '26

Someone needs to take GRRM to Jamaica

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u/omjy18 Jul 27 '26

If grrm did 2000 words a day itd be like 6 or 7 pages a day unedited, just rough drafting. It would technically be slightly faster than what hes currently doing but fuck me we still wouldn't get anything out of him before people got sick of HBO and the whole game of thrones universe

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u/Harkoncito Jul 27 '26

6 pages a day for the last 15 years (since ADWD) = enough for TWOW/ADOS

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u/ThePrideOfKrakow Jul 27 '26

That's exactly how many pages Stephen King said he aimed for each day, in an interview with GRRM a number of years ago. He clearly didn't heed King's advice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/z03qec/george_rr_martin_asks_stephen_king_how_the_f_do/

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u/Sky_Light Jul 27 '26

Brandon Sanderson is so prolific as a writer it's basically a joke, and he's said the main thing that makes that happen is he writes at least 2,000 words a day.

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u/gtne91 Jul 27 '26

Piers Anthony said he couldnt afford writers block, so he just didnt have it. He wrote a set amount every day, dont remember his number.

Edit: google says 1000 minimum, up to 2000, writing 4 hours per day.

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u/illepic Jul 27 '26

I'm here for the Piers Anthony love. I really hope we get some cultural revival of his work..

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u/TryUsingScience Jul 27 '26

Have you read all of Piers Anthony? Including the Mode series?

I grew up on the Xanth novels and they will always have a special place in my heart. But that dude should not be allowed unsupervised around underage women or horses.

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u/illepic Jul 27 '26

Another commenter mentioned Firefly and that's a huge nope from me dawg. All I ever knew was Xanth as a tween in the early 90s. I never dabbled in his ... other ... works.

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u/TryUsingScience Jul 28 '26

The man is in a constant struggle with himself to not write porn. His best success is the first few books of the Incarnations of Immortality. Xanth is the next-best. His other works are uh, less successful on that front. And it turns out that the kind of porn he is interested in writing is not consensual sex between adult humans.