Please stop writing please
April 27th, 2005 by Bill
There’s a guy. A writer. He goes by the name of Alexander McCall Smith. You can read about him here (the CBC Web site) - Automated Storyteller: The curse of the prolific author.
It appears I’m not the only person who has noticed this guy doesn’t just write. He writes a lot.
And I can’t keep up. I don’t have that kind of time or money. The CBC article says this about him:
The Zimbabwean-born, Scottish-based author is best known for The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series … McCall Smith is currently nurturing two other series. One is Portuguese Irregular Verbs, an academic farce starring the dotty Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld; and The Sunday Philosophy Club, another ongoing whodunit.
Now, I quite enjoy his books. I just find there are too darned many of them. Mr. Smith … you can stop now. Or try something else.
Perhaps this should be one of the rules of writing, one we could formalize (though I don’t know how). The rule would run something like, “Don’t write more than people can actually read.”
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