I would have loved to have one of those "million word a year" authors as a creative writing teacher- they put out a lot for their "eats", but for most of them the good stories outnumbered the bad ones.
You can tell the vintage of the story by the fact that certain words are replaced by blanks ( "The ------ I didn't."), although most of us now can figure out what the missing word likely was.
I would have loved to have one of those "million word a year" authors as a creative writing teacher- they put out a lot for their "eats", but for most of them the good stories outnumbered the bad ones.
You can tell the vintage of the story by the fact that certain words are replaced by blanks ( "The ------ I didn't."), although most of us now can figure out what the missing word likely was.