By Suw Charman-Anderson, Contributor

I stumbled up on a blog post by Jared Sandman via Twitter yesterday in which he tackles Malcolm Gladwell’s idea that any skill takes 10,000 hours of practice to master. Many have addressed the flaws in this idea, but Sandman looks at it from a writer’s perspective: I generally write two pages in an hour (maybe three if I’m really cooking).  That means I would have to write 20,000+ pages before my work is worth publication.  20,000 pages is the equivalent of fifty novels.  If you don’t know what you’re doing by your fiftieth book, you aren’t paying close enough attention.  Most professional novelists won’t reach that goal over the course of their whole careers. I tweeted a link to Sandman’s blog post, and a few people pointed out that it takes a bit longer than 200 hours to finish writing a novel because the process goes beyond how many words you can bash out for your first draft. …read more
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