{"id":1839,"date":"2011-09-14T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2011-09-15T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T18:36:20","slug":"to-make-this-list-id-need-a-coffee-iv-bionic-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/to-make-this-list-id-need-a-coffee-iv-bionic-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"To Make This List I’d Need a Coffee IV & Bionic Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the course of my internet\u00a0boogling this week, I ran across a link to this list of the 20 Most Prolific Authors And Writers In Literary History<\/a>.\u00a0 As I perused it my brain came to a screeching halt - okay that's not so unusual.\u00a0 But this list is of some darned unusual folks. And keep in mind that it's the duck lady calling someone strange.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The info is doubtless dated a bit by now, but even if some other folks have managed the mind-bending feat of scampering onto this list, it in no way diminishes the \"wow\" factor of the achievement of these authors.\u00a0 By all the faeries\u00a0on the Isle of Skye, take a look at the numbers.<\/p>\n

The most prolific author remains a lady who passed away in 1973 - Mary Faulkner of\u00a0South Africa.\u00a0 I'm guessing that between 1903 and\u00a01973 there must not have been a lot of TV in South Africa.\u00a0 No, I know what it was.\u00a0 The internet wasn't sapping everyone's attention.\u00a0 Then again, people were still writing on typewriters.\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 However she managed it, Mrs. Faulkner wrote 904 books.\u00a0 Yes. You read that right - 904 books.<\/p>\n

She wrote under a bunch of pen names including Kathleen Lindsay.\u00a0Her romances include \"There is No Tomorrow,\" \"Wind of Desire,\" and \"Harvest of Deceit.\"\u00a0 I'm wondering if I checked one of hers out from my local library as a teenager.\u00a0 I found a book there that I flat out adored and it was shelved near Johanna Lindsay's work.\u00a0 Years later, before I'd ever written a word, I was looking for that book and emailed Ms. Johanna Lindsay because I thought it was one of hers.\u00a0 She replied and said that based on my description it sounded very interesting but that it wasn't hers.\u00a0\u00a0She\u00a0 suggested that\u00a0I write it myself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some years later I proceeded to write a number of books - but I haven't made 20 yet so\u00a0Ms. Faulkner's record sure looks safe from me.\u00a0 But I've never written one based on my faint memories of that earlier book by someone that I'm sure I read somewhere.\u00a0 Of course, by the time I emailed Ms. Johanna Lindsay I'd read more romance novels that you could shake a stick at and I'd already started mulling over how I'd write one of my own. So Johanna\u00a0was right on track to suggest that I write it myself - she likely suspected that the plot I recited didn't belong to anyone else.<\/p>\n

Now,\u00a0I'm wondering if my mystery book might have been one of Ms. Faulkner's. They don't seem to be widely available a'tall.\u00a0 And the truly aggravating part is that when I see them sold somewhere, the stores don't include a description of the book. Why on earth wouldn't they describe the book? I'm not buying a pig from anyone's poke - including the most prolific writer in history.<\/p>\n

A man named Lauran (Paine) wrote 850 books. Another, Prentiss Ingram, wrote over 600 books, mostly dime novels.\u00a0 He wrote a bunch of Buffalo Bill stuff and sometimes wrote a 35,000 word book overnight.\u00a0 Okay, 35K is a darned short book, even in today's ebook age, but it's still a heck of an achievement.<\/p>\n

There's no way on God's little green planet that I'd even touch the last author on the list - L.T.\u00a0 Meade who wrote 258 children's books.\u00a0 I could give it a shot, but I'm not sure that there's enough coffee in the galaxy to fuel the effort, and I'm positive the Graham budget wouldn't stretch to funding bionic fingers.<\/p>\n

But I'm surely quacking full of admiration for all of the authors who were energetic enough and imaginative enough to make this list<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

......maybe if I mainlined the coffee.......<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the course of my internet\u00a0boogling this week, I ran across a link to this list of the 20 Most Prolific Authors And Writers In Literary History.\u00a0 As I perused it my brain came to a screeching halt - okay that's not so unusual.\u00a0 But this list is of some darned unusual folks. And keep ...continue reading \"To Make This List I’d Need a Coffee IV & Bionic Fingers\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}