These days I am reading a book called 1Q84. I was really excited about starting it because, well why not ..I like reading novels, It is good book and I had time to enjoy it.
I think sometimes I like more to boast about having completed a novel ( to myself or others ) more than I like to actually reading . In such cases book like 1Q84 doesn't really help, because it a 1200 pages long book and you have to spend quite some time to read it and after all that you have just completed reading one book, which does not impress anyone .
Anyway, I digress, my point is that it is a very big book and I wanted to read it quickly, So I started reading it really fast and I realized that my eyes can scan the words very fast but than my brain takes a lot more time trying to process it. So it slows down my reading pace. However we all know that we can speak much faster than we can read. So it takes more time to consume information than to generate it ( may be what we say is too dumb and therefore can speak very fast but that doesn't matter ) . Now leading on from the same argument that we can generate information at much faster rate than we can consume, I should theoretically be able to complete writing a book at faster than I can read a book.
So if I can read a book in a day, theoretically I should also be able to write the first draft version of it in a day . Pretty interesting don't you think ? . No, me neither . But it is something.
Note : I know we speak faster than we can write so writing a book may not necessarily be as fast but still it can be at least if not faster than reading book.
So after I complete this book I can just try and write some crap like this post :-)
I think sometimes I like more to boast about having completed a novel ( to myself or others ) more than I like to actually reading . In such cases book like 1Q84 doesn't really help, because it a 1200 pages long book and you have to spend quite some time to read it and after all that you have just completed reading one book, which does not impress anyone .
Anyway, I digress, my point is that it is a very big book and I wanted to read it quickly, So I started reading it really fast and I realized that my eyes can scan the words very fast but than my brain takes a lot more time trying to process it. So it slows down my reading pace. However we all know that we can speak much faster than we can read. So it takes more time to consume information than to generate it ( may be what we say is too dumb and therefore can speak very fast but that doesn't matter ) . Now leading on from the same argument that we can generate information at much faster rate than we can consume, I should theoretically be able to complete writing a book at faster than I can read a book.
So if I can read a book in a day, theoretically I should also be able to write the first draft version of it in a day . Pretty interesting don't you think ? . No, me neither . But it is something.
Note : I know we speak faster than we can write so writing a book may not necessarily be as fast but still it can be at least if not faster than reading book.
So after I complete this book I can just try and write some crap like this post :-)
