New Year – New Start for Goals
Do you start the new year with some goals? We used to call them “resolutions” but that terminology is fading. I am sure many of us start the new year with some key things to achieve. Writers do! Perhaps it is to write more words each week or day. Perhaps it is to finish that story languishing somewhere in your computer or note pad. Maybe to enter some competitions this year. One a month? Or if you’ve never done that, put your toe into the water for a competition or two.
The World’s Most Prolific Writer
Do you know who this is? Is it a man or a woman? OK, before you go to Google to check, I have already done so. Steven King is reputed to write 2000 words a day! But no, it’s not him.
Surprisingly, or not surprisingly I guess, women have done well in the list of most prolific writers. The number one on the list is Corin Tellardo, reputed to have written over 4000 published works. Enid Blyton was also up there in the top 20, with 762, just a few more than Barbara Cartland.
I can’t find a list of Australia’s most prolific writers on Google, but it does have a list of the Top Australian Writers.
- BRYCE COURTENAY. Although he was born in South Africa, most of Courtenay’s novels are set in his adopted country of Australia. …
- HELEN GARNER. …
- MELINA MARCHETTA. …
- MEM FOX. …
- RICHARD FLANAGAN. …
- SALLY MORGAN. …
- MATTHEW REILLY
- BANJO PATTERSON
(And there’s more to read here.)
Have you read any of them? All of them? So there’s a goal for 2019 – to see what top Australian writers have written.
One very interesting article in Wikipedia is this one about Australian Literature. We certainly have some wonderful writers in this country.
I wonder if any of our members will find themselves in the best seller list this year. Next year?