Thanks for this. I especially enjoyed the section on word counting software and word linking games.
The Writers Who Wrote the Most in History
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#12"writers who wrote the most in history"
Proceeds to ignore Eastern writers (Arab, Chinese, Persian) who wrote just as much or more.
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#13lol i clicked on the article prepared to be angry that GK Chesterton wasn't mentioned and he was the first one mentioned. His collected works run to at least 37 volumes: https://www.chesterton.org/store/product/volume-xxxvii/ i have the first four
Interestingly, several internet posters are in the same range as GK Chesterton and that includes HN's tptacek, Stack Overflow's Jon Skeet.
There's people who've written 2x to 4x more than Chesterson like James Dean, and did so in just 7 years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/comments/1ggcxle/how_lon...
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#14"writers who wrote the most in history" Proceeds to ignore Eastern writers (Arab, Chinese, Persian) who wrote just as much or more.
There's an entire section on Chinese writers lol
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#15Left out Charles Hamilton It has been estimated by the researchers Lofts and Adley that Hamilton wrote around 100 million words or the equivalent of 1,200 average-length novels, making him the most prolific author in history. He is known to have created over 100 schools that were the subjects of his stories as well as writing many non-school stories. More than 5,000 of his stories have been identified, of which 3,100…
Came here to say exactly this. He wrote under so many pseudonyms he appeared to be an entire team of writers on his own.
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#16Nicolae Iorga is not on that list, has around 1100 published books and between 12k - 25k articles
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#17Another to add to this list would be Isaac Asimov. Most well known as a Science Fiction writer, he actual wrote over 500 books (mostly non-fiction) on a wide variety of subjects.
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#18"writers who wrote the most in history" Proceeds to ignore Eastern writers (Arab, Chinese, Persian) who wrote just as much or more.
Ignored, or just unaware? Perhaps you could reach out to the author and point them to such writers.
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#19Agatha Christie was also a high-volume writer; apparently, this was due to unreasonably demands in her contracts with her publisher, and she hated to be thus pushed.
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#20Not my "cup of tea", but certainly a record holder is Agatha Christie whose 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare.
In years past, my preferred crime writer was Walter Mosley, who wrote the Easy Rawlins series among his output of 70 novels. A Jewish African-American, he was at one time a computer programmer. He turned to novel writing at 35 years of age.