I guess the big problem for someone who tries to do it not in small form is that while you write the story it is already getting old. There are writers who can write a novel in a season, but not many. At least if we talk about good writers. Hm-m-m, did rationalists try to hire Stephen King? :)
Do the stories get old? If it’s trying to be about near-future AI, maybe the state-of-the-art will just obsolete it. But that won’t make it bad necessarily, and there are many other settings than 2026. If it’s about radical futures with Dyson spheres or whatever, that seems like at least a 2030s thing, and you can easily write a novel before then.
Also, I think it is actually possible to write pretty fast. 2k/day is doable, which gets you a good length novel in 50 days; even x3 for ideation beforehand and revising after the first draft only gets you to 150 days. You’d have to be good at fiction beforehand, and have existing concepts to draw on in your head though
I guess the big problem for someone who tries to do it not in small form is that while you write the story it is already getting old. There are writers who can write a novel in a season, but not many. At least if we talk about good writers. Hm-m-m, did rationalists try to hire Stephen King? :)
Do the stories get old? If it’s trying to be about near-future AI, maybe the state-of-the-art will just obsolete it. But that won’t make it bad necessarily, and there are many other settings than 2026. If it’s about radical futures with Dyson spheres or whatever, that seems like at least a 2030s thing, and you can easily write a novel before then.
Also, I think it is actually possible to write pretty fast. 2k/day is doable, which gets you a good length novel in 50 days; even x3 for ideation beforehand and revising after the first draft only gets you to 150 days. You’d have to be good at fiction beforehand, and have existing concepts to draw on in your head though