Self-Publishing Roundtable

SPRT #137 – Pulp Speed: How to write it, maintain it and achieve warp 10 with Jim Johnson and Ivy Sinclair

04.01.2016 - By Self Publishing Round TablePlay

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Pulp Speed isn't a new concept but the name might well be. It was coined by Dean Wesley Smith and essentially means: sitting down and writing lots of words and stories. Also known as putting your arse in the chair and writing. Dean went a little bit further with his definition and created pulp speeds -- similar to Star Trek's warp speeds -- so people can say they're at pulp speed one or whatever.

This is a popular yet controversial topic but considering all of the hype around 21 day / monthly challenges (Chris Fox, etc) that are currently circulating we thought we should dedicate a podcast episode to it. So we invited two authors Jim Johnson who runs a Google+ Group called Pulp Speeders and is currently completing a 3 Novels in 3 Months Challenge; and Ivy Sinclair who wrote: How I wrote 28,000 words in two days. Two authors who are definitely writing at pulp speeds and we asked them what pulp speed is, how to achieved it and how to get to the next speed...

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