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david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:
The contract for my first book had a thing in it called an 'on time completion bonus'. This seemed like a weird thing: surely the contract delivery date is the expected date? A bonus for delivering early made sense, but a bonus for 'meets expectations' seemed strange.
In the end, I submitted the first draft manuscript a couple of weeks before the deadline. My editor had, apparently, been completely unaware until that point that writing a book in less time than you said it would take was a thing that authors could do.
I understood Douglas Adam's comment about deadlines a lot more after that.