Post by Mark Neumayer on Aug 8, 2011 21:42:03 GMT -5
I'm reading The Black Mask Boys which features hard-boiled fiction from the old Black Mask pulp magazine. There is a piece in there from Erle Stanley Gardner who created, among other characters, Perry Mason. In the bio Mr. Gardner is quoted thusly:
"For ten years I kept up this pace of a hundred thousand words a month."
This was while he was working full-time as a lawyer. He slept for just three hours a night!
In 1926 he sold a million words - 97 sales in one year. And you thought you were pushing yourself?
"For ten years I kept up this pace of a hundred thousand words a month."
This was while he was working full-time as a lawyer. He slept for just three hours a night!
In 1926 he sold a million words - 97 sales in one year. And you thought you were pushing yourself?
