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Jeffrey Cummins's avatar

@Janine Eaby, thank you for the like!

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Bill Gallagher's avatar

Edna O’Brien estimated it took James Joyce 22,000 hours to write Ulysses. https://gallagherpdx.substack.com/p/how-a-single-judge-allowed-ulysses

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Jeffrey Cummins's avatar

I know it took years for him to write Finnegan’s Wake. A few other writers helped to “edit” it. I forget their names. I don’t know if Joyce ever considered that book “complete.” Isn’t there a saying about it takes 20,000 hours of time spent to master a subject?

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Parker McCoy's avatar

I like you break down your modus operandi here. So many good insights. And I agree on the revising. I think that's what most of us do. You write a bunch of crap and then revise and revise and revise. I think some people never get going because they're afraid of writing crap but every great has written tons of it and then revised it...in most cases. Great writing comes from great rewriting. Thank you so much for sharing, Jeffrey.

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