The writer with the most words in print is L. Ron Hubbard. Robert Silverberg was writing 1 million words a month for many years. They had bills to pay. Some of the ideas were frivolous to be sure, but the good SF stuff was really good.
I found a claimed peak 250,000 words a month, which is gargantuan - a whole novel every week. Indeed this is likely an exaggeration.
1,000,000 a month would be about 1 word per second for 8 hours a day, which is infeasible even if someone else was providing the words. It would also be 200 novels a year. Not on.
L Ron Hubbard was a dire SF author. You can see he was going for the volume rather than the quality. He found he could make a lot more money from a fake religion.
yep. 1/4 of a million words is right. Memory failed. Interesting history - that of Silverberg. I rate 3 of his novels as top 10.
Einstein in a parallel world
Robert Silverberg was writing 1 million words a month
a million words a month ??....wow !
That's why he was such a bad writer. There are one or two chess writers who are similar. Mentioning no names, of course.
just wondering. if TR does not exist ? then can i justify why im stumbling around on this lump ?
I thought this thread finally died, Lola. You were the last one standing and now it's me.
You are here because at the very beginning of the universe when Mrs God put the cake in the oven .... no, before that .... when she went out and bought the ingredients and mixed them in her celestial mixing bowl, it was written that there would be a Lola stumbling around in the darkness of ...... blah blah
I collect vinyl ... well, I prefer the sound of vinyl to the digitalised stuff and I'm switching on the old-time record player and I'm going to play an Akashic Record. Maybe it will be by an American group called Love .... Forever Changes. Perhaps.
u mean snap crackle pop back in the 1900's ? lol !
Yep. They changed the way they made the grooves back in the 60s. Pre about 66 the grooves were wider and they waggled sideways, and the records were made of much harder and heavier vinyl. Later on, grooves were narrower, waggled up and down and were made of softer plastic. generally, there's a crossover period and the originals were made to sound a certain way, full of a really rather dirty sound. The early recordings, like by the Rolling Stones, had none of the clearly separated instruments that they're digitalised into. Of American groups, Velvet Underground is clearly my favourite and many of the digitalised and remixed attempts sound completely different .... not at all how they were meant to sound.
but guess wut ? u just gave me a mom & dad vision. almost like a backward prophecy. and i know it seems a little crazy...and yeah the visions hazy...but have u ever seen ur parents dance on a ropewound elliptirug ? to a song set upon a old console stereo ?
TY opti !!...i f***ing luvyu !
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For instance, this .... it's probably digitalised and they don't tell you but there will be absolutely zero point buying this record if it's remixed because people who remix them don't even understand what the music was supposed to sound like. Track 1 Side 2 originally had a heavy rhythm in the mid-range which carried all the beat on what was probably an acoustic guitar with electric pickups but nowadays the bass guitar and the drums are enhanced, the mid range is diminished, the sounds are separated and although you might think it's good if you haven't heard the originals, it isn't the same song. I'm very surprised David Icke hasn't complained about it yet. So the whole thing sounds slower and kind of unexciting.
You are here because at the very beginning of the universe when Mrs God put the cake in the oven .... no, before that .... when she went out and bought the ingredients and mixed them in her celestial mixing bowl, it was written that there would be a Lola stumbling around in the darkness of ...... ???
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Robert Silverberg was writing 1 million words a month
a million words a month ??....wow !
That's why he was such a bad writer. There are one or two chess writers who are similar. Mentioning no names, of course.
Much of the writing for a time was "trashy, sex novels". It sold. Paid bills. He was good at it. Better was his sci-fi material, the best in the business.
I read in another thread where Optimissed posted that he got to "know 2Q1C and like him." Character evaluation not a strong suit, obviously.
The post had been edited to reflect 1/4 M words to be accurate.
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF
i just barrel-rolled a giant green olive outta a jar. with my s/w short fingers. blame these on my mom. fwiw im kinda suspicious of ppls who dont like olives. esp stuffed ones.
i just barrel-rolled a big giant green olive outta a jar. with my s/w short fingers. blame these on my mom. fwiw im kinda suspicious of ppls who dont like olives. esp stuffed ones.
The green or black ones?
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Robert Silverberg was writing 1 million words a month
a million words a month ??....wow !