I was sad to hear about of the death of the Spanish novelist Corin Tellado, sad because I had never heard of her before. Someone who published 4000 novels and sold 400,000,000 copies deserves to be known by everybody. I can’t even imagine writing such volume. Even if each novel had 200 pages it means she wrote 800,000 pages and I struggle to put 15 – 20,000 words together. I'm not only sad – I feel a little ashamed of my pathetic efforts. You can read details of her life and work at: http://www.week.com/news/entertainment/42853762.htm
Imagine Writing 4000 Novels
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I want to get all snobby, and say that those novels wouldn't be anything I'd be proud of writing!
On the other hand, for a day job? Beats hauling trash...
On the other hand, for a day job? Beats hauling trash...
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Even if she only made a quarter on each copy, that around a hundred million bucks. Pretty impressive from both the production and economic standpoints.
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The link you provided failed to connect...but thank you for the reference.
ami
the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corín_Tellado
romance but non erotic...interesting...
ami
the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corín_Tellado
romance but non erotic...interesting...
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It seems a bit unlikely when you compare her with Frank Richards who with a mere 72 million words is credited by Guinness as the record holder.
George Simenon who was very prolific, regularly wrote 50 to 80 pages a day and once wrote a 220 page novel in 28 hours. And he was a pretty good writer. Not fair is it.
George Simenon who was very prolific, regularly wrote 50 to 80 pages a day and once wrote a 220 page novel in 28 hours. And he was a pretty good writer. Not fair is it.
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George...
QUOTE ishtat George Simenon who was very prolific, regularly wrote 50 to 80 pages a day and once wrote a 220 page novel in 28 hours. And he was a pretty good writer. Not fair is it.
He also was quite prolific in the bedroom! Read his autobiography is you’d like an interesting read.
From Wikipedia: In the summer of 1915, going against the grain of the Jesuits' chaste teachings, the twelve year-old Simenon had the first of many sexual experiences in his long life; in this case, with an older girl of fifteen…Many years later, Simenon was known as "the man of 10,000 women," a self-confessed sex addict who "needed" to have sex three times a day…Quite a few women were prepared to humor him for nothing, nevertheless, these 10,000 were said to include 8,000 prostitutes…It has been suggested that the real number of women in Simenon's life was, although prodigious, vastly smaller than 10,000…In this he was quite different from his fictional creation, Maigret, who can be presumed to have been entirely faithful to Madame Maigret….
From http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/simenon.htm: The last Maigret, MAIGRET ET MONSIEUR CHARLES, was published in 1972, and the next year Simenon announced his retirement. In the following years he published only non-fiction of an autobiographical sort. In his autobiography QUAND J'ÉTAIS VIEUX (1971, When I Was Old) Simenon claimed to have had sex with more than twenty thousand different women. LETTRE À MA MÈRE (1974) examined his relationship to his mother. Simenon died in Lausanne, on September 4, 1989. He left instructions at his death that his body be cremated without any ceremony and that his ashes, mingled with his beloved daughter's, be scattered beneath a huge tree in the back garden of his last house in Lausanne….
10,000? 20,000?
I’m james r scouries and I’m not that prolific…
[size=+2]no Dolphin has ever slept with 10,000 women…[/size]
QUOTE ishtat George Simenon who was very prolific, regularly wrote 50 to 80 pages a day and once wrote a 220 page novel in 28 hours. And he was a pretty good writer. Not fair is it.
He also was quite prolific in the bedroom! Read his autobiography is you’d like an interesting read.
From Wikipedia: In the summer of 1915, going against the grain of the Jesuits' chaste teachings, the twelve year-old Simenon had the first of many sexual experiences in his long life; in this case, with an older girl of fifteen…Many years later, Simenon was known as "the man of 10,000 women," a self-confessed sex addict who "needed" to have sex three times a day…Quite a few women were prepared to humor him for nothing, nevertheless, these 10,000 were said to include 8,000 prostitutes…It has been suggested that the real number of women in Simenon's life was, although prodigious, vastly smaller than 10,000…In this he was quite different from his fictional creation, Maigret, who can be presumed to have been entirely faithful to Madame Maigret….
From http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/simenon.htm: The last Maigret, MAIGRET ET MONSIEUR CHARLES, was published in 1972, and the next year Simenon announced his retirement. In the following years he published only non-fiction of an autobiographical sort. In his autobiography QUAND J'ÉTAIS VIEUX (1971, When I Was Old) Simenon claimed to have had sex with more than twenty thousand different women. LETTRE À MA MÈRE (1974) examined his relationship to his mother. Simenon died in Lausanne, on September 4, 1989. He left instructions at his death that his body be cremated without any ceremony and that his ashes, mingled with his beloved daughter's, be scattered beneath a huge tree in the back garden of his last house in Lausanne….
10,000? 20,000?
I’m james r scouries and I’m not that prolific…
[size=+2]no Dolphin has ever slept with 10,000 women…[/size]
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