The Truth Behind the Guinness World Record of Most Novels Written in a Year.
The Guinness World Record apparently doesn't exist. But it does, according to the New York Times, and it has since 1977.
I wrapped my 23rd novel of the year today, July 22nd, 2021. Started this journey back on January 1st, but if we are being technical, and counting a year for what it is, starting on July 22nd, 2020—I would calculate I’ve written about 40.
Here’s what 23 Novels written on a typewriter looks like.
When you obsess enough, and there’s a certain amount of production, you start wondering if there’s a world record for the most books written in a year. And then I was wondering if there was a record for the most written on a mechanical typewriter.
So I searched Google (naturally) and found this: