RARA-AVIS: Lean writers

Andy Hughes (AHughes@sbtinfo.com)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:08:46 -0500 >Fred Willard:
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><<The basic short HB novel is really a good commerical form because
>someone with a spare writing style and a gift for colorful characters
>and situations (and a plot-o-matic) can turn out 4-5 pretty good books a
>year.>>

Mario wrote:
I fully agree with this. For example, (and then listed several authors)

Don't forget Donald Westlake in the 1960s. As himself and Richard Stark,
he produced 2 to 4 novels a year, all of them under about 200 pages.
This went for both his early, hardboiled novels and his later, comic
novels. Westlake didn't really start to write long until the mid to late
1970s. Since then, he's done some long ones and some short ones, but I
think he's pretty good at not padding the pages and letting the story
come out at the length it should.

Andy
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