COMPULSION: The Writers Who Wrote The Most in History

As regular readers of my blog know well, I enjoy navel-gazing and writing about writing. I consider myself a specimen of curiosity just as I do any other topic I write about. Being someone who has decided to write so frequently and publicly, I've gone over the throughlines and various thesis topics I've discovered I gravitate towards, I've gone over my workflow from idea to publishing, I've gone over how each day of writing is both a wishing paper crane and message in a bottle I'm sending out. There are mornings I sit down at this desk and mechanical keyboard and I don't know what I'm about to write. I just know that, by the time I stand up in an hour or so, there will be roughly 2,000 more words on brennan.day than there were the hour previous. And tomorrow, there's a good chance that there will be another 2,000 words, and then the day after that. This has been going on for, give or take, seven months now. Over 430,000 words on this blog, posting nearly every day. In this process, a…