“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by”*…
Most people don’t believe me when I tell them I write 100,000 words every day of my life. If I’m being totally honest, 100,000 is probably just a baseline number. Some days I exceed a half million words. It’s just what I do. I’m a professional writer. So, if you want to know how you might achieve a similar output as me, here you go…
Pick up the pace at “How To Write 100,000 Words Per Day, Every Day.”
* Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
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As we show our contempt for contemplation, we might recall that it was on this date in 1959 that Jack Kerouac appeared on the Steve Allen Show; the kinescope recording that survives is the only known interview footage of him. Kerouac and Allen had collaborated on a recording, Poetry for the Beat Generation, released that same year.
After the show, Kerouac dined with actress Mamie Van Doren, who starred in the film The Beat Generation, which had been released earlier that year.