• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Alright cool, probably takes a long time to do while also having a job and a family, but I’m just saying there were times in college where I wrote out 5k words in a day, formatted and typeset within a week.

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      1 month ago

      Do you think your 5k words in a day were written well enough for someone to pay for it? Homework is not a product you have to market.

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        1 month ago

        I was a 3.8 with degrees in Engineering and a minor in Humanities, and yes actually I am a published scifi writer as well.

        I don’t mean to put anybody down, unlike you, but 12k simply isn’t a lot in the context of a manuscript.

        Anybody reading this who dabbles in writing should spend more time on it to reach realistic goals in their lifetime.

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          My point is that your 3.8 Engineering/Humanities assignment is not a product that needs to marketed to the masses. 5k words in that space is easy, and I think this because I have done the same thing in the same field (Engr).

          12k words isn’t a huge amount, but as a published sci-fi writer you already understand that fictional writing is a saturated market with brutal competition, and publisher deal deadlines can be brutal too.