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What’s especially funny about your example is Hemingway wrote for periodicals as a day job for a long time, and so he kept that kind of schedule.

Except some of his books came about because he didn’t keep to that schedule, and we don’t usually talk about Hemingway for his articles in the Toronto Star.



Ok, the metaphor doesn't really work for writers because the effort you put into an article or blog post is not comparable to a song.

But anyway my point was more about producing significant and valuable work.


The trend in self published novels is also towards putting out series of cheap and relatively bite sized books coming out in a tight schedule.

Many of these are.. not so good. A few are great.


Oh! I didn’t mean for my comment to come across as a disagreement of any kind.

I was just making a side comment. I thought it was funny and that your analogy was even more true because we don’t talk so much about Hemingway’s frequent articles in a newspaper but we study at length and hold in high regard his long form works.




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