{"id":842,"date":"2010-01-26T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/?p=842"},"modified":"2010-01-26T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T11:01:00","slug":"842","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/2010\/01\/26\/842\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Silverberg et les pulps.<\/a><\/p>\n

Back in my pulp-mag days I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked again from one to three, for a work day of five and a half hours or so. I wrote 20 to 30 pages of copy in that time, doing it all first draft, so that I was able to produce a short story of 5000-7500 words in a single day. If I had 3000-worders to do, I usually wrote one before lunch and one after lunch. At three o’clock I poured myself a shot of rum or mixed a martini, put a record on, and sat down to relax until dinnertime, reading and perhaps sketching out the next day’s work on a scrap of paper. This was the Tuesday-to-Friday routine. I never worked on Saturday or Sunday.
On Monday I made the rounds of the editorial offices to visit some mix of John Campbell, Howard Browne, Larry Shaw, W.W. Scott, and Bob Lowndes\u2014editors of Astounding, Amazing, Infinity\/Science Fiction Adventures, Super Science Fiction, and the various Lowndes titles\u2014to deliver the previous week’s work. Sometimes I stopped off at my agent’s Fifth Avenue office to pick up checks, also. (I took the subway downtown from my apartment on West End Avenue in Manhattan.)
In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write. I produced a lot of copy that way\u2014a million words a year, or more\u2014and since nearly all of it was contracted in advance, I didn’t have to worry about rejections very much. (Now and then I would aim a story at Campbell or Gold or Boucher, where nothing was guaranteed in advance, and if they turned it down I delivered it to one of the lesser magazines, which bought it. Nothing went unsold for long.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Silverberg et les pulps. Back in my pulp-mag days I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked again from one to three, for a work day of five and a half hours or so. I wrote 20 to 30 pages of copy in that time, doing it all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laurentqueyssi.fr\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}