The Writers Who Wrote the Most in History

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recursivedoubts•about 5 hours ago

lol i clicked on the article prepared to be angry that GK Chesterton wasn't mentioned and he was the first one mentioned. His collected works run to at least 37 volumes:

https://www.chesterton.org/store/product/volume-xxxvii/

i have the first four

socalgal2•5 minutes ago

Interestingly, several internet posters are in the same range as GK Chesterton and that includes HN's tptacek, Stack Overflow's Jon Skeet.

There's people who've written 2x to 4x more than Chesterson like James Dean, and did so in just 7 years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/comments/1ggcxle/how_lon...

bombcar•about 3 hours ago

When your job is to produce writings every week, you produce a ton of writings.

About 15 volumes in I started to realize I’d read most of what he had to say; but it was still entertaining each time.

Given his size, perhaps he was the Largest Language Model.

pglevy•about 2 hours ago

I happened to dip into Heretics recently and thought, if someone were to publish one of these essays as a blog post today, it would be decried as AI slop. This must be who the models learned to write from.

recursivedoubts•about 3 hours ago

lol, he must have plagarized himself so many times over the years

bombcar•about 3 hours ago

Most (but by no means all) prolific authors do, eventually. You see it especially in podcasts, many of them start to somewhat repeat after a few tens or hundreds of episodes.

damontal•about 4 hours ago

Except he referred to him as G.J. Chesterton.

antonvs•about 4 hours ago

I hear he was good friends with H.F. Wells.

__0x01•about 2 hours ago

Thanks for this. I especially enjoyed the section on word counting software and word linking games.

Ozzie_osman•33 minutes ago

"writers who wrote the most in history"

Proceeds to ignore Eastern writers (Arab, Chinese, Persian) who wrote just as much or more.

slyall•about 3 hours ago

Left out Charles Hamilton

It has been estimated by the researchers Lofts and Adley that Hamilton wrote around 100 million words or the equivalent of 1,200 average-length novels, making him the most prolific author in history. He is known to have created over 100 schools that were the subjects of his stories as well as writing many non-school stories. More than 5,000 of his stories have been identified, of which 3,100 were reprinted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(writer)

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