Red Rick
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Can we also hire Devils Elbow to finish the ASOIAF book series when George RR Martin kicks it?Short answer: more than any sane person who's fitting it all in around a fulltime job would.
Long answer... The biggest thing that hampers me is that I'm a twenty-something who isn't from Italy, so almost all the historically-oriented stuff requires me looking it up (and then inevitably getting sidetracked reading up on related information I don't need for the posts). I will also make climb profiles myself when there aren't any available and I deem the climbs important enough (in this case thankfully only for two stages), for which I'll trawl geoportals of (in this case) Italian regions for topographic maps and/or digital elevation models and put the data in manually (because Google/OSM elevation data are really poor and export options from most geoportals are rather limited). Then add in the writing itself and finding usable images and it becomes pretty time-consuming. Don't have a good estimate for how much time I've spent on this in total, but the most time-intensive stages will take me an hour or more. And before anyone asks, I spend far less time per stage on normal OPs because I stick to the technical side of things there.