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"The few pages of this chapter have taken you a few minutes to read; they have taken me, I'm sorry to say, days and days to write" (How to Read Literature Like a Professor Foster pg. 85).
This is a funny thing to have read. After reading so much, at least for me, I lost some of the realization of what it takes to write. I just read things and think about the story-line and the last thing that would come to my mind is how long it took the author to write this. It isn't that I don't know this, it's just that sometimes you need a little reminder to say, "Hey! You see this. Somebody took a lot of time to do this." And then my brain says, "Oh yeah, I forgot but thanks for reminding me." Wow...I probably shouldn't say any more.
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Ally Hall on Welcome to The Twilight Zone!: You're so right. When I sit do
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Dennis G. Jerz on Welcome to The Twilight Zone!: Writing is hard work. There's
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Writing is hard work. There's no getting around that fact. Thanks for a very honest post, Angela.
This is very true. We should take time to appreciate the time that goes into a piece.
I rarely thought about the time and work that went into writing a story until we had to write our short stories for this class. I guess I just thought that writers came up with a great idea and just wrote until it was all on paper then had the editor go over it, but it is so much more than that. Great point Angela.
You're so right. When I sit down with a book, I never think about how long it took the author to labor over the writing. The only time I think about how long it takes is if I'm waiting for the next book in the series and it's taking forever to be published (like all those Harry Potter books I know everyone waited for). I think we do sometimes need that little reminder of "hey, I worked hard over this, but please enjoy".