Writing Fast and Slow

GRRM (George R.R. Martin) is what we call a sloooooow writer. Stephen King is what we call a fast writer. In Chuck Wendig’s 2016 Mandate post, he refers to a comment that he once received from a reader stating that his books were no good and that he ‘settled’ because he wrote too fast. This is, sadly, a terrifyingly prevalent attitude, particularly amongst the literati: slow work is artful work, fast work is hack work.

Excuse me while I go bash my head against a wall for a minute here.

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