A Few Conclusions I Came To…

Writing a Novel in 5 Days… While Traveling…

I did that challenge back before the pandemic and before we moved to Vegas, and then I did blogs every day about the writing which has the title above. So in essence I got two books out of it.

And a while back I went through and updated the book to 2026 for the Kickstarter (The four writing books will be going out this week for that. Main four are already out. See the update on the Kickstarter campaign for the links. Kris’s four writing books are coming.)

So at the end, I did a 2026 update about the challenge and added in some conclusions.  Here is the update that is at the end of WRITING A NOVEL IN FIVE DAYS WHILE TRAVELING 2026 Edition.

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My Conclusion looking back at this all from 2026.

This was a writing exercise. It created a novel and this nonfiction book, which is great.

The reason, deep down, as to why I do this, is twofold.

One: I get bored easily. Challenges are fun for me.

Two: I admire the old pulp writers, the men and women who thought nothing of writing a novel in five days. I read about the pulp writers all the time.

I had a big computer, they wrote with manual typewriters.

I did it for one trip, many of the old pulp writers maintained that pace for a decade.

Writers in 2026 are for the most part lazy. Writers think that writing an hour a day is “hard work” and too much for their poor brains to deal with. Writing forty hours a week, as I did for this challenge, is just too much for most modern writers to grasp. And the very idea would kill an English teacher dead.

Writers in 2026 are scared most of the time. So they must spend months outlining to make sure their novel is dull and won’t have energy. And heaven help them if they waste a precious word along the way. (Gasp… get the smelling salts…)

Writers in 2026 are in a hurry to be successful. So they write to market, to what others want them to write. And some of them are so much in a hurry and so stupid, they us AI in their writing.

So this writing exercise was for me, to prove to myself that once again I was born too late as a writer. I wanted to prove to myself that I flat don’t belong with all the lazy, whiny writers of this modern time.

I figured any pulp writer could write a novel in five days.

But could they do it while traveling?

Sure, but not as easily.

So for me it felt like a way that for a few days I could hang my hat with some of the pulp writers of old.

It was great fun.