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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Replying to @paulg
Anything you write from your own experience takes very little time to write.
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Replying to @_shankarganesh
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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Replying to @paulg
Perhaps I assumed that the writing begins only after having that understanding.
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Replying to @_shankarganesh
It's the other way around usually. You think of most of the ideas while writing. That's the origin of the word essay. http://paulgraham.com/essay.html
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