For any who may not have heard about it yet, poet Daniel Gardener recently launched his website to write "1 million" poems... lol Rather he can do it or not, remains unseen. I'm going to go with not =p. It's still rather poetic he's attempting to IMO. http://www.millionairepoet.com Friend received hers a bit ago and she definitely enjoyed.
Have a free poem written by Daniel Gardener
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I don't know if I want a poem from a poet that can't spell "multiple" on the front page of his site...
Hmmm. There are 2080 M-F working hours (8/day) in the typical work year of 52 weeks. Take away 80 hours for 10 vacation days, and 80 hours for holidays, and you have 1920 hours. At one hour per poem (includes allowance for maintaining website, reading poem requests, thinking about poem to meet request, then writing poem) 1,000,000 poems will take 510.2 years.
Same 8 hrs/day 365 days a year, reduces the time to 324.5 years.
OK, throw out the side work, and reduce the poem writing time to 5 minutes per poem.
Standard work week - 43.4 years to do 1,000,000 poems.
365 8/hr days - 28.5 years.
Who wants a poem resulting from 5 minutes of the poet's effort?
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tyro,
i agree, it can't [and won't] be done.
what the figures look like that would make it doable (mathematically) are:
1 minute per poem,
10 hours per day,
6 days a week,
52 weeks.
Answer: 5.3 years.
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a little more realistically:
1 minute/poem
8 hrs/day
6 days/week
48 wks/yr
Answer 7.2 years.
essentially it's a publicity stunt. but hey, getting by on writing poetry is a rare, difficult thing indeed. one must excuse the stunts.
i agree, it can't [and won't] be done.
what the figures look like that would make it doable (mathematically) are:
1 minute per poem,
10 hours per day,
6 days a week,
52 weeks.
Answer: 5.3 years.
---
a little more realistically:
1 minute/poem
8 hrs/day
6 days/week
48 wks/yr
Answer 7.2 years.
essentially it's a publicity stunt. but hey, getting by on writing poetry is a rare, difficult thing indeed. one must excuse the stunts.
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