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I'm not a mystery, horror, sci-fi or pulp fiction fan, so I'm late to the party to appreciated the dazzling quantity of work people like Isaac Asimov, Stephen King, Georges Simenon, and Dean Wesley Smith among others crank out. How's it done?
Delightful, you said you are not waiting to finish to revise but cycling back sooner to tighten up your writing. That what DW Smith described in Writing Into the Dark. He does everything he can to let his creative mind just have a fun time writing. Right now he's writing a short story a day! 1500 words minimum. Even still, that's 6 pages double spaced. And he's thinking he'll turn a few into novels.
I'm tiptoeing back into my own writing (rather than hack work) after, oh, 50 years. Tho I'm writing film script style to meet the culture of my script read group, I'm going to "produce" them on the cheap. There's a Stanford/Harvard law professor, Lawrence Lessig, who has refined an amazing presentation style using Powerpoint and typography. Very basic slides, most with fewer than 7 words. I'm adapting that method to dialogues I'm composing.
There are also AI-powered text to voice apps that will table read for me. Putting them all together—there lies the journey.
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