He writes.
I write.
The answer seems simple but most people don't know by tangible measure the amount of work, output, effort, an action they create which is why it seems like he creates a lot ....to you. To me, we're both cars on a highway, he's just a ways ahead of me but I can see the color, make, the age of his car, passengers and the license plate.
I write.
The answer seems simple but most people don't know by tangible measure the amount of work, output, effort, an action they create which is why it seems like he creates a lot ....to you. To me, we're both cars on a highway, he's just a ways ahead of me but I can see the color, make, the age of his car, passengers and the license plate.
Consider how many films or TV shows you've seen in 20 years. The American average is 4-8 hours of tv a day, smartphones adding to consumption now. 1200 hours a year, 25,000 on average every 20 years.
I know from experience and effort that it takes about an hour to handwrite or type let's say 5 pages of a story. So that gives us about 125,000 pages over 20 years if we exchange one activity for another. Let's call a book 500 pages including edits that might final draft bring it down to 300 pages. That's 250 300 pg novels that one could have produced by omitting TV.
Lets now calculate time, lifespan. I've been writing for 30 plus years, so I've produced about 200-300 manuscripts of 300-500 pages, not all published, not all good, some more or less complete, I'm talking just pages. In my spare time. You get better and faster after the first 10 years (Eriksson's 10,000-hour rule for mastery.). By my late teens, I had master the basics of creative writing and I've spent the past 20 on style, construction, experimentation, depth but in high school I was presenting full manuscripts as projects. 4-6 hours a day. So I and King do all kinds of other stuff like work, sleep, socialize in those average 20 hours a day. We might even watch tv and movies.
But we spend a practiced, ever improving period of time on an activity where the product is tangible.
Your TV, film, video game, texting time, is lost time.
Now he's 30 years old than me, so I will
say his "car" is a generation of skill better than mine, goes faster. He has also had writing full time longer than me so he can add in 8 more hours a day to it. His time to output is triple, like Star Trek warp theory. He and I both have writer ships and I can see his on the highway because I'm moving at warp speed relative to those not. But I'm at warp 5, maybe 6, he's at warp 9. Not just 3 points higher but squared to the power of multiples..... let's say for simplicity sake 6 is twice the previous, 7 is twice that and so on.
say his "car" is a generation of skill better than mine, goes faster. He has also had writing full time longer than me so he can add in 8 more hours a day to it. His time to output is triple, like Star Trek warp theory. He and I both have writer ships and I can see his on the highway because I'm moving at warp speed relative to those not. But I'm at warp 5, maybe 6, he's at warp 9. Not just 3 points higher but squared to the power of multiples..... let's say for simplicity sake 6 is twice the previous, 7 is twice that and so on.
So I produce 125,000 pages in my 30 years, which is about right as I look at my past, present and near future catalog.
He produces between 1.5 and 3 million equivalent pages in that next 30 years he has on me. Which is why a beginning writer can't even see him and I can trail him. Barely.
I think about these things, like how many times did I ride the 7 train back and forth from Queens to Manhattan in three years of living there? Well, over a thousand times.
I also think about this in relation to my writing as I do things like blogging. I'm not just pontificating on also getting some warp increases in. That's one of the distinctions between pro and amateur, you measure. So a thousand blogs, at an average of 2500 words, 250 words to 500 to a page, 2.5 million words but more importantly each word is a practice, an erg increase in warp speed. Plus my other fiction and non-fiction production.
And I go to work and school!
Now extrapolate that to King and you realize he's probably, like Prince's music vault got reams of starts, stops, drafts. I have a 5x8 storage room and a third of it Is writing.
Tangible production is what you're seeing, most people don't have that, except perhaps as money which is why maybe money is so obsessive and to the artist not so much. Not that we don't value and evaluate our work but there are competing tangible items to the physical sense of produced work. I would even further extend this to why so many employees feel misery, cheated, used because unless you're an entrepreneur, owner, you don't own any of your production.
King and I and other artists and entrepreneurs do....or always should.
Smile, Kyle
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