The writing process
How do you write over 100 books? I don’t know, but I’d imagine that first you read everything you can get your hands on, even skipping food to save money for books. And it may help if you become an itinerant worker, traveling the world as a merchant seaman. Then get a good typewriter and a quiet place to work and put the typewriter there. Start with poetry and don’t forget lunch. This was Louis L’Amour’s writing set up demo from Jamestown, North Dakota. He wrote all his novels in Los Angeles, though originally from Jamestown.
“How the West Was Won” is one of the books I’m familiar with but I know people who have read all his books. I think they were retired when they started reading them. It’s estimated that Louis L’Amour sold over 225 million books around the world. Now that’s one hot property that most books stores should make space for.
on another note:
“I am perfectly willing that those holding views differing from mine should continue to live, but with every fiber of my being I loathe indirection and shiftiness, and where it occurs in high place, and it used to save face at the expense of the vital interests of our great service (in which silly people place such a child-like trust), I want that man’s blood and I will have it no matter what it costs me personally.” - William S. Sims.
William S. Sims was a Naval officer at the turn of the 20th century and he was writing about the bureaucracy at the time. The US Government had passed the Pendleton Act (1883) setting up the “modern Civil Service” and the act was intended to replace the existing patronage system with one based on merit and job performance. I don’t know if things are better now or that anything has changed since then - it’s still a place of favors and doing favors for people is how you advance your career (yep, anything and everything you can think of).