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Comment author: shminux 08 December 2014 01:09:40AM 5 points [-]

There should be a sustained writing speed measurement unit. I would name one after Wildbow: 1 bow = 100k words a month. An average fiction writer would do well to write at 0.1 bow.

Comment author: Gondolinian 08 December 2014 01:13:21AM *  2 points [-]

Upvoted, though you should probably adjust for quality somehow. As Eliezer wrote here:

There are stories which are better than Worm, and stories which were written faster than Worm, but I don’t know of any epic which was ever written faster and better than Worm.

Comment author: RowanE 08 December 2014 11:45:30AM 1 point [-]

I would imagine quality would have a separate unit, and (speed x quality) would be a third unit defined in terms of the first two, either with its own name or just referred to as "(quality unit)-bows".

Comment author: fezziwig 08 December 2014 10:02:48PM 2 points [-]

So I guess the quality unit would be the Wild?

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