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pjthompsonI'm not sure what this anecdote proves, if anything, but it's interesting.
A friend went to see a talk by Marilynne Robinson, who's novel Gilead is currently #10 on the LA Times bestseller list. She published her first novel, Housekeeping, 23 years ago. Then she kind of dropped off the writing planet. She wrote 71 pages of Gilead in longhand in her spiral notebook, then typed them up and emailed her agent to let her know she was still around and still writing. She asked the agent not to show the pages to anyone, but the agent sent them to an editor at Farrar Straus Giroux who said they were "from God." So Ms. Robinson wrote the remainder of the book in installments and only 5 months later, it was published.
Like I said, not sure what that proves.
A friend went to see a talk by Marilynne Robinson, who's novel Gilead is currently #10 on the LA Times bestseller list. She published her first novel, Housekeeping, 23 years ago. Then she kind of dropped off the writing planet. She wrote 71 pages of Gilead in longhand in her spiral notebook, then typed them up and emailed her agent to let her know she was still around and still writing. She asked the agent not to show the pages to anyone, but the agent sent them to an editor at Farrar Straus Giroux who said they were "from God." So Ms. Robinson wrote the remainder of the book in installments and only 5 months later, it was published.
Like I said, not sure what that proves.