Why Hamilton is Helping Me with My Writing Quota
3 min readJul 20, 2021
During the number, Non-Stop in Hamilton, Aaron Burr steps into the spotlight:
ALEXANDER JOINS FORCES WITH JAMES MADISON AND JOHN JAY TO WRITE A SERIES OF ESSAYS DEFENDING THE NEW UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, ENTITLED THE FEDERALIST PAPERS. THE PLAN WAS TO WRITE A TOTAL OF TWENTY-FIVE ESSAYS, THE WORK DIVIDED EVENLY AMONG THE THREE MEN. IN THE END, THEY WROTE EIGHTY-FIVE ESSAYS, IN THE SPAN OF SIX MONTHS. JOHN JAY GOT SICK AFTER WRITING FIVE. JAMES MADISON WROTE TWENTY-NINE. HAMILTON WROTE THE OTHER FIFTY-ONE