I know how many printed pages essays are because I almost always print them out when working on them. Mistakes seem more visible in print, and I find I edit more aggressively with a pen in my hand.
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People often ask how long I spend on essays. On average about 2 days per printed page. But it varies a lot. "The Refragmentation" (http://paulgraham.com/re.html ) took 3 months, because it required a lot of research, and "Writing, Briefly" (http://paulgraham.com/writing44.html ) took 67 minutes.
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Since I finished Bel, it's the main thing I work on. For the second question, do you mean percent of essays, or words? Maybe 85% and 25% respectively.
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Paul, would you say you ‘carry’ the essays with you for a long time, then write them more clearly in 2 days or they mostly spontaneous observations, or both?
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I often carry the first paragraph for a long time. The rest happens when I sit down to write.
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Every time your writing comes I'm the public domain, it gets lapped up by all and provides a substantial good of thoughts for everyone
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Anything you write from your own experience takes very little time to write.
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I would not say that. Sometimes it takes a long time to understand something you think you know well enough to explain it to other people.
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Writing is so underrated in today's world. People think you write what you know. In reality a big part is created on the fly as your imagination and creativity run rapmant.
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These are gross times, not net, I presume?
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