Speed Writing
The Washington Post details how Pamela Anderson managed to write her new novel, Star, in just seven months. Well, actually, she didn’t write write it. She talked to some dude once a week and he wrote it. The Post calculates that this means Anderson spent 28 days on the 294-page tome.
Sure, that’s seven days more than Stephanie Green spent writing her sure-to-be best-selling drive-by of evil tabloid priestess Bonnie Fuller, but it still reminds me of a line from the doomed yet brilliant Fox series Action. At one point, a screenwriter who’s been put through the wringer checks into the hospital for exhaustion. “Exhaustion?” scoffs soulless producer Peter Dragon. “You’re just sitting there. Writing is the cure for exhaustion.”
Tell that to Haruki Murakami.