Writers, prolific

Jules) Henri Poincard, 1834-1912. French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. Prolific and gifted writer on mathematical analysis, analytical and celestial mechanics, mathematical physics, and philosophy of science. 

Piers Anthony (hipiers.com) was one of the first famous people to respond to my request. Piers is one of the world s most prolific fantasy writers and creator of the Xanth series. He s published more than a hundred novels, and I collaborated with him on our novel Spider Legs. Anthony s novel Ogre may have been the first original fantasy paperback ever to make the New York Times bestseller list. He sent his Top 10 words to me ... 

Readers frequently ask me about the methods I have used to become a prolific book author. Readers also wonder how they can get published. So, in this chapter, I would like to talk about personal experiences I ve had as a writer and with the business of publishing. In the previous chapter, I mentioned that Marcel Proust was forced to pay for the publication of his masterpiece. In Search of Lost Time. Luckily, I ve not had to do that with any of my books. In contrast, no publisher would initially touch In Search of Lost Time, even though today it is hailed as one of the best novels ever written. In 1919, one of its earlier volumes. Within a Budding Grove, won France s most prestigious literary award, the Goncourt Prize. 

I don t know how writers like Isaac Asimov were so prolific before the age of the computer. I would have a very difficult time writing books, and doing all the necessary text rearrangements and editing, without a word processor. Asmiov had a U-shaped desk and three typewriters in his office. If he ever became bored or stuck on one project, he simply swiveled his chair and worked on another project. 

Advances also often come in two parts, half upon signing the book contract, the other half upon acceptance of the final manuscript or publication of the book. This two-stage advance has led to interesting speculation about the prolific American short-story writer O. Henry. He was a master of surprise endings and often wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. The New York World paid him 100 for each of his stories, but because O. Henry did not always deliver his story by the deadline, his editor made sure only to pay half of the advance for the first half of the story and refused to pay the rest until the entire story was received. Some critics have said that this led to O. Henry stories with the second half nearly unrelated to the first Apparently, O. Henry sometimes rushed out anything he could for the first half of the story just to get the 50 and then ignored much of what he had written when completing the tale. 

Perhaps one of the strangest quarrels between an editor and publisher involved Shirley Jackson (1919-1965) and her publisher Alfred Knopf. Jackson is the prolific American writer best known for her haunting short... 

This period was prolific in alchemical writings by many anonymous and pseudonymous writers or by persons whose dates and personalities are more or less vague and doubtful. Prominent among these are Johanus de Rupescissa, about 1350 Richard Ortulanus, about 1350 Nicholas Flam-ellus (Flamel), 1330-1413 ( ) Bernhard of Treviso, 1406-... 

Valencia. He was a prolific writer, although, as with many of the great names in alchemy, some of the works attributed to him are spurious. He travelled widely and is perhaps the most important exponent of medical alchemy before Paracelsus. He is known to have treated Popes Clement V and Boniface VIII, although he was briefly imprisoned in Paris for his unorthodox (i.e. strongly magical and Kabbalistic) views on the Trinity. He is said to have possessed an elixir that aided rejuvenation and longevity. 

With the order data in hand, the sales reps try to visit the most prolific prescription writers—such as cardiologists and internists—once every three or four weeks. (This means office visits it doesn t include conferences or dinner speeches.) For Dickinson, that s 250 doctors a month, or 3,000 a year. 

Councillor Courtin is probably Germain Courtin, Seigneur de Monsel, 1587-1667, a prolific writer on medical matters who was made Conseiller d Etat in 1624. 

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