Speed Writing - A Novel in Three Days

ive or take.

A little while ago, I came across this bit of information in the introduction to the Folio Society edition of Crime Stories from The Strand:

"Edgar Wallace was another wildly careless writer, extraordinarily prolific - he wrote eighty-eight crime novels and much, much else, and tossed off one book in thirty-six hours non-stop - who yet was a gripping story-teller."

One book in 36 hours? Or there's Michael Moorcock, whom India posted about, who tells you how to write a book in three days.

One book in three days? It's slightly more feasible than 36 hours, but planets would have to align, free lattes and single malts would have to flow, and I would have to be home entirely alone with a broken internet connection, for that to even be remotely possible.

Says I, who's due to start a writing marathon soon!