Rowling/writer's block (WAS: Are we having fun?)

[dtbonett]

No: HPFGUIDX 80730

 --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sarcasticmuppet"
<sarcasticmuppet at y...> wrote:
> I apologize, I wasn't being too tactfull.  My point is that you can 
> call Jo a liar all you want, it doesn't really matter.  Whether she 
> had Writer's block or not, she still managed to write a 890 page book 
> within about two and a half years (take away editing/publishing 
> time).  That's pretty fast in my opinion.  Not to mention putting her 
> stamp of approval on two movies, getting married, and having a baby 
> also within that two and a half years.  I know I'd never be able to 
> do anything like that.


Yes, OOP was written very fast, actually, considering the length AND
complexity.  We get used to people churning out those 'template' books
(ie. Danielle Steele, Jeffrey ARcher, etc.) and forget that to do
something completely original like this is a little more
time-consuming, if it is going to be quality work. Look how long it
took Tolkien to finish LOTR, about twenty years, all his friends had
given up.

Dorothy