10 hours, 10 columns

From BANG's Mark Purdy ... Friday! Friday! Friday!

Purdy: This sports columnist will write 10 columns in 10 hours

 

"Every now and then"

 

Why?

 

Shank Shaughnessy can do 10 columns in an hour. Just replace 'John McNamara' with 'John Farrell', etc.

 

I am under no illusion that all 10 columns will be fantastic. Some of them will be good, I hope. Some of them won’t be, I imagine.​

So will your readers. This is an inane exercise. Doing any type of writing just to do it is what hacks do. He'd be the kind of guy who'd always write 1000 words of fiction per day even if it's shit. No one benefits from that. All he's doing is courting carpal tunnel syndrome. Why not save your topics for when you actually need them? I fucking hate gimmicks like this, especially from a writer. It's shit like this that causes people to think less of the profession and fosters the impression that anybody can do it.

 

He lost the bet?

 

I didn't read the link yet, but my first question is how many of the ten articles are for experience (i.e., free unpaid labor)?

 

This is an interesting concept. Certainly more skill required to do this than the 10 stories a day some writers aggregate on blogs.

Kind of reminds me of The Trentonian's L.A. Parker writing 365 columns in one year: L.A. Parker: Gumption fueled goal for 365 columns in 2014

 

"I wanna talk about me!"

 

Aren't writers already doing this? They are called "blogs."

 

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