So what size should you target? Suppose you write 1000 words/day, so 7000 words/week, should you write 7 1000 word things, 14, 500 word things? 2 3-4k word things? 1 7k word things? The "cost" to you will range from $350 to $7000. But it's a trick question...
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It's some mix of mythologization, passion, special circumstances, special constitutions etc.
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tldr: there actually is a meaningful unit economics to writing, but most people are not aware of it because they rarely think in terms of production cost, only the realized market value... which for the median published public word is 0.
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Probably less than 0 actually. Negative if you count all those people writing words on non-free servers and not making anything from it.
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Note that this entire thread is about just the input costs of writing alone, assuming nothing very special in terms of research beyond just casual reading you would do anyway/living life and using that as fodder.
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Special research costs that can be directly attributed to the writing itself: - Reading things you would not otherwise read - Archival research - Interviewing - Travel for on the ground data collection
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Research costs that should NOT be attributed to writing are costs that can be attributed to a higher-value output. Ie research on a time machine to write about a time machine is not really research about the the writing, since the time machine is the more valuable output.
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