Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.
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It's very rare that publications double their frequency.
From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
Academic success depends on research and publications.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.
When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.
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