I was just re-thinking the 10,000 hour rule and surfing Google. Clearly in 2014 some scientists refuted the validity of the initial 10,000 hour mastery guideline. I already mentioned in my first blog that to become a great writer, you could also write 1,000,000 word-- hence the title "million word blog" and the reality check of how long its really going to take-- four-ish years.
Today's new interesting thought is from Orson Scott Card, who said:
“Since every writer has about ten thousand pages of utter drivel in them, you might as well start now so you can get a good portion of that out of your way while you’re still young."
So from the perspective of 10,000 pages of utter drivel, figuring that there's 250 words per page, we are looking at 2.5 million words, which at 5,000 words per week is 9.6 years.
Wow. That's a long time.
Now, if I figure that I may spend 20 hours a week writing, 52 weeks a year, to hit the 10,000 hours, I would have to work...9.6 years.
Not funny, dammit. No matter what I do, it's going to take me a decade to become the quality of writer I want to be. I guess that isn't surprising...
I guess I better get going, whining isn't going to help. I have a lot of work ahead of me!
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