tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212961869656221548.post3072156798213578995..comments2024-03-28T03:01:07.273-07:00Comments on The Writer's RoadTrip: 3 Billion Words? Try 100 Billion or moreAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815127974797546304noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212961869656221548.post-30717506994713763402011-09-27T16:47:50.652-07:002011-09-27T16:47:50.652-07:00Reminds me of someone who spoke seventy languages ...Reminds me of someone who spoke seventy languages but made little sense in any of them.<br /> <br />How did we get into word-counting?<br /> <br />Oh, those school papers, later- the pay-per-word articles, then editors’ suggestions…<br />But who’s counting!Mirka Breenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00653086859905415156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212961869656221548.post-39733287641060338692011-09-27T09:50:02.698-07:002011-09-27T09:50:02.698-07:00Wow, those are AMAZING numbers!Wow, those are AMAZING numbers!Ruth Schiffmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02625363295823548969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212961869656221548.post-18803872684797318982011-09-27T08:10:16.742-07:002011-09-27T08:10:16.742-07:00I hope you're right, Catherine, but I fear as ...I hope you're right, Catherine, but I fear as more and more people "grow into" the new teechnology and accept it as a means for self-expression, not just as a meaningful way to communicate timeless information and stories, we'll see the market flood with "the noise of a billion voices."<br /><br />Just out of curiosity, I thought I'd see whether we were close to approaching some astronomical or theoretical limit, such as the number of atoms in the universe, and it's nowehere even close (~10e80 or 10 to the 80th power). Even the number of atoms on Earth is far, far greater (~3x10e50). That means the million monkeys typing on a million computers can keep their jobs for another million years. ;o)KJHowehttp://www.kjhowebooks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212961869656221548.post-1438258366001671072011-09-27T03:22:36.421-07:002011-09-27T03:22:36.421-07:00My first reaction is that lost in those billion wo...My first reaction is that lost in those billion words is just a few really good novels that have been well edited and are worth reading. What goes up must come down, so this rush to publish anything by anybody in ebook form will eventually run its course but when? where? How much higher will the numbers go first? Whew...lots to wonder about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com