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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by shakna on Thursday June 26, 2025 @05:54AM (#44385792)
> “I’m 12 years late on this damn novel, and I’m struggling with it,” he said. “I have like 1,100 pages written, but I still have hundreds more pages to go. It’s a big mother of a book for whatever reason. Maybe I should’ve started writing smaller books when I began this, but it’s tough.”

He's averaging a hundred pages a year. Maybe not the fastest, but certainly not the slowest writer. With the size of his books... Cut the guy some slack.

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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by antonvs on Sunday June 29, 2025 @05:07AM (#44411468)
> 12 years late

Seems like people have cut him a lot of slack already. Of course he doesn’t really owe anything to anybody, but at some point he and everyone else has to face the reality - which is that if that book is ever published, it’ll be posthumously, finished by a ghostwriter.

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