Stats

[Paul DiFilippo]

Just got to thinking about  TRP's lifetime stats in the wordage 
dept, as if spread out over his whole career.  Suppose we 
allocate a generous (?) 200K words to V, 50K to COL49, and
500K to GR.  Then toss in another 50K to SLOW LEARNER.  That makes
a generous 800K over a 33-year career, or roughly 25K per year.
Now, if an average minimalist novel is 60K, that means TRP is
producing at the rate of roughly three years per "novel"--a
not uncommon and respectable rate amonst writers.  Adjust
these figures however you wish--up or down--our boy still comes
off as not so slothful as he might first appear.  Must be 
them Puritan work ethic genes overcoming the dope smoke.

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