What is the most anyone has produced in writing?

[Kyriakos]

I am aware of Pessoa's "thirty thousand manuscript pages", and also of other writers who had work over 10 thousand pages long, such as Proust. But does anyone know who holds the record as to most fiction-oriented pages produced?

Currently i am at around 10 thousand pages, and with some luck i can hope to have over 40K in the end. Of course it does not matter that much how many they are, if they are not good, but the level of the work is mostly stable.

Also you can discuss if you feel like it how you view such works. Do you feel the person misses out on actual life by living so much in literature? (just do not get personal; i am way too introverted and i know that) Also, do you feel that for a work to be "complete" it has to reach a number of pages, numbering in the thousands? Or does it not matter in your view?

 

[Lord Gay]

Tl;dr

 

[GhostWriter16]

Until the "Fiction" part I was thinking the IRS, they're tax code is 4 times the length of Shakesphere's works COMBINED

 

[GoodGame]

Until the "Fiction" part I was thinking the IRS, they're tax code is 4 times the length of Shakesphere's works COMBINED

LOL

I bet the code of federal regulations (CFR) competes well (not sure if the IRS regs are a subset of that).


I think my longest continuous work was about 35 pages, and my longest cooperative work was probably 45 pages. All college works. No clue what the sum of everything that I've ever had to write in my life, but none of it was fiction.

 

[GhostWriter16]

Speaking for me personally, I wrote a 144 page novel once (It was "Supposed" to be epic fantasy, but wasn't really all that epic.)

 

[Hygro]

"And then the dragon went back to bed after a long day of raiding cattle. The towns people did nothing to stop it, and the local knight opted to enjoy his king's largesse than risk his life."

 

[Lillefix]

Barbara Cartland has written quite a bit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cartland_bibliography


"During her long career, my mother, Barbara Cartland wrote an incredible 723 books, which were translated into 38 languages, making her the most prolific author of the 20th Century.

She left behind a staggering 160 unpublished manuscripts which we have decided to publish."
http://www.barbaracartland.com/static/home.aspx

 

[civ_king]

Chesterton wrote a wee bit, 80 books, a couple hundred short stories, several hundred poems and several thousand essays

 

[NedimNapoleon]

89 pages.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Until the "Fiction" part I was thinking the IRS, they're tax code is 4 times the length of Shakesphere's works COMBINED

So that's like what...the first half of the Fu-Manchu mysteries?

 

[Tycho]

Barbara Cartland has written quite a bit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cartland_bibliography


"During her long career, my mother, Barbara Cartland wrote an incredible 723 books, which were translated into 38 languages, making her the most prolific author of the 20th Century.

She left behind a staggering 160 unpublished manuscripts which we have decided to publish."
http://www.barbaracartland.com/static/home.aspx

That is a massive amount of hand cramps and carpal tunnel syndrome that one would experience in their life.

Though in all seriousness, I believe that there was a French author (whose name escapes me at the moment) who wrote an incredibly long series of books, about 79, and they were measured in the millions of words.

 

[Tabarnak]

I started a book around 12 until 15 years old. It was purely for fun. I was a big fan of : ''Livres dont vous êtes le héros''. I don't know if a correct translation exists for these books. Most formats where under 400 paragraphs(approx. 250 pages). My book had approx. 175 pages at the end.

Funny thing is my writing evolution through these years. You can understand that the end of the book is far more better in term of quality than the beginning

I still have this somewhere at my home but since they are replaced with video games there is no money to make anymore with this book

from Fighting Fantasy(Défis fantastiques) series

 

[Lillefix]

I think you're talking about "choose your own adventure"-books.

 

[Tabarnak]

I think you're talking about "choose your own adventure"-books.

Something like that.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

"The Great Gatsby" and "Cannery Row"were only a little over 100 pages from memory , but boy did they feel like over 1,000,000 . Reading a "classic" and hating it is always disappointing .

 

[Ayn Rand]

Currently i am at around 10 thousand pages

Same here - although I threw it all away in a fit of rage Bit silly of me really.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I started a book around 12 until 15 years old. It was purely for fun. I was a big fan of : ''Livres dont vous êtes le héros''. I don't know if a correct translation exists for these books. Most formats where under 400 paragraphs(approx. 250 pages). My book had approx. 175 pages at the end.

Funny thing is my writing evolution through these years. You can understand that the end of the book is far more better in term of quality than the beginning

I still have this somewhere at my home but since they are replaced with video games there is no money to make anymore with this book

from Fighting Fantasy(Défis fantastiques) series

Fighting Fantasy is light years ahead of Choose Your Own Adventure books. So that's what The Warlock of Firetop Mountain translates into in French?

I belong to a couple of FF groups, and we're in the process of writing some articles to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the series.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

"The Great Gatsby" and "Cannery Row"were only a little over 100 pages from memory , but boy did they feel like over 1,000,000 . Reading a "classic" and hating it is always disappointing .

That's how I occasional feel with Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It's worse than Lord of the Rings.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Isaac Asimov is credited with over 500 works, both fiction and nonfiction. Some of that is fluff, though; he claimed a title if he edited an anthology, for instance.

 

[mangxema]

Currently i am at around 10 thousand pages, and with some luck i can hope to have over 40K in the end. Of course it does not matter that much how many they are, if they are not good, but the level of the work is mostly stable.

How? I mean, when you write stuff, does it just flow out of you, or is that basically what you do in your free time?