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   Dimensional Traveler to Bobbie Sellers   
   Re: "10 of the Fastest Active Writers in   
   03 Feb 26 17:48:27   
   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 2/3/2026 2:30 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > On 2/3/26 12:22, Ted Nolan  wrote:   
   >> In article <10ltj0s$1oeue$1@dont-email.me>,   
   >> Lynn McGuire   wrote:   
   >>> On 2/2/2026 11:52 PM, Robert Woodward wrote:   
   >>>> In article <10lrp2l$15tsn$1@dont-email.me>,   
   >>>>    Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> "10 of the Fastest Active Writers in Science Fiction and Fantasy"   
   >>>>>       https://theportalist.com/fastest-active-sff-writers   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "Meet the authors who never keep you waiting"   
   >>>>   
   >>>> That link doesn't work.   
   >>>   
   >>> Huh, it disappeared.   
   >>>   
   >>> #1 was Brandon Sanderson.   
   >>>   
   >>> #2 was Nora Roberts.   
   >>>   
   >>> #10 was Seanan Lynn McGuire.   
   >>>   
   >>> Lynn   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> I think a lot of the indie kindle writers are working at full pulp speed.   
   >> Not sure anyone has gone the full Fanthorpe though.   
   >   
   >      Fanthorpe? Wow! A factory producer.   
   >      He used relatives to type up his taped stories. Today an equivalent   
   > production   
   > could be done with computer dictation.  Maybe that is the secret of high   
   > ourput.   
   >      Lynn should ask the relative.  But quanity will never win over   
   > quality for me.   
   >   
   Actually, the secret of modern high-output writers is to write outlines   
   and farm the hard work of filling them out to ghost writers.   
      
   --   
   I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky   
   dirty old man.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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