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by wpietri 4628 days ago
Depends on how serious you are about learning to write well.

The Lord of the Rings is 473k words. [1] If you type it out at 50 wpm, that's 157 hours, or about four work-weeks of typing.

That's a lot if you're just fucking around. But if your goal is to write your own successful epic, burning a month or three on really thinking closely about each word is a reasonable investment against the 5 or so years you'd spend writing that epic.

[1] http://www.cesspit.net/drupal/node/1869