{"id":1517,"date":"2007-06-07T22:36:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T05:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2007-06-07T22:32:43","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T05:32:43","slug":"the-question-how-do-you-write-so-much-the-answer-i-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1517\/the-question-how-do-you-write-so-much-the-answer-i-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"The question: How do you write so much? The answer: I don’t . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Lani Anglin asked me in email about my “blogging regimen.” That would almost seem to imply a plan or a schedule, and I don’t do things that way. So I ignored that idea and responded to her second remark: “I’m curious to know how you crank out so many freakin’ blogs.”<\/p>\n

Here’s my short answer: I don’t write very much here. I could write quite a bit more. I don’t think the quality would suffer, but I think your patience might. This is what I wrote back to Lani:<\/p>\n

I can write 2,000 words an hour if I need to. I can dictate good-enough text at 150 words a minute for as long as necessary. It’s not any sign of genius, it’s more like running: Do it enough and you get good at it. When I was a younger man, I used to write at least 8,000 words every day, seven days a week. The Grand Opera stuff takes more time, but not as much as you’d think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you watch the fifth to the tenth minute in Video Verité<\/a>, you’ll see me deliver a lecture, ex tempore<\/i>, on the aesthetics of discursive prose. It’s not perfectly-drafted text, but I could whip a transcript into shape in no time. But it would be a lot better — more informative, more memorable, and probably longer — if it were written as an essay rather than spoken.<\/p>\n

As it happens, I wrote about writing, among other things, when BloodhoundBlog was just short of a month old<\/a>. We were just starting to get some attention, and I wanted to memorialize the blog’s beginnings:<\/p>\n

 
Word-slinging in the Rain — or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the blog…<\/b><\/p>\n

None of this is new to me — except for the parts that are.<\/p>\n

I’ve been writing on the nets since before there were nets. Since BBS systems — I ran two of them at different times of my life. Since CompuServe was a time-share system called MicroNet that charged $3.00 an hour for half-duplex transmission at 300 baud.<\/p>\n

(Think about that! “Baud” is Bits of Audio Data. My first modem had an acoustic Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lani Anglin asked me in email about my “blogging regimen.” That would almost seem to imply a plan or a schedule, and I don’t do things that way. So I ignored that idea and responded to her second remark: “I’m curious to know how you crank out so many freakin’ blogs.” Here’s my short answer: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-weblogging-101","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1757,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1757\/in-search-of-excellence\/","url_meta":{"origin":1517,"position":0},"title":"In Search of Excellence","author":"Jeff Kempe","date":"August 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"That, of course, was the name of a best-selling management book that came out in the early eighties. 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