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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Stephen King claims he writes 2000 words a day.

R. L. Stein supposedly wrote a new (admittedly short) novel every two weeks.

This Spanish romance novelist apparently wrote over 4000 novels in her lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor%C3%ADn_Tellado

So sure, why not 80 technical papers in 2.5 years?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's easier to write that much if you are just making stuff up...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Successful writers generally don't just make stuff up. They do plenty of research.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can't just compare creative writing to writing a paper.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

True, but you can compare writing 4000 novels a year with being able to write 80 papers a few pages long in 2.5 and say that both are possible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He didn't write all those papers. He put his name on them. He also finds it worth his time to publicly argue with a pig in shit, so there's that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The writing of the paper is generally a trivial part of the work. Each technical paper is supposed to be a succinct summary of months or years of technical work.