Writers are all just whinging slackers

A friend directed me to the website of author Dean Wesley Smith who seems to be blogging a full book about shattering the myths of writing. I didn't read it all, but my eye was drawn to one section in which he 'does the math' for us. He reckons he can write 250 words in fifteen minutes – about a page of manuscript – which seems fair enough. Drawing it out, he calculates that in a year, he can write a 90,000 word novel (average length) working for just fifteen minutes each day. Er, okay. But h...