My point is that your 3.8 Engineering/Humanities assignment is not a product that needs to marketed to the masses. 5k words in that space is easy, and I think this because I have done the same thing in the same field (Engr).

12k words isn’t a huge amount, but as a published sci-fi writer you already understand that fictional writing is a saturated market with brutal competition, and publisher deal deadlines can be brutal too.

Do you think your 5k words in a day were written well enough for someone to pay for it? Homework is not a product you have to market.

If I ever meet someone who boasts about climbing Everest, I will be sure to ask them questions like “How many dead bodies and how much trash did you see?” and “Does it smell like doodoo the whole way up, or does it get cold enough that you can’t smell the piles upon piles of human shit?”

I would say they could pickle the garlic… but then they’ll probably just end up with too much pickled garlic.