If you write in 1 sitting, there's a good chance, if you're decent, that you'll be able to write the whole thing in a single flow without anything needing to be thrown away. Very little chance of that happening as you go longer and split the work across sessions, days, weeks...
Probably less than 0 actually. Negative if you count all those people writing words on non-free servers and not making anything from it.
-
-
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.
Show this thread -
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
Show this thread -
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.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.