User blog comment:Kolpik/Snouse in My House/@comment-26444017-20180906063841

To answer your main questions:

1. No, I don't think so.

2. Not offhand

3. Used to find 'em around my mom's apartment when I was little, and had a couple smaller ones as family pets, but no major instances that I can think of.

As for the non-snake question, the best answer I can think of is hubris. If you think your story is good, and you're blind to the bad parts, 2 to 5 hours seems like a long ass time. It's not really, obviously, but for the uninitiated who think they can poop great stories like they're nothin', it can seem that way.

And in some cases, it can work. Specifically, in the case of very short stories or even poems (which I bring up because I happen to have one in the workshop that went through two drafts in like 4 hours), I feel like it can happen because they are so short and easy to read and edit that it just doesn't take that long. Still, they need to be decent stories at the end of it, and if no real effort was put into fixing the little nuance mistakes, then they won't be, and it'll be painfully obvious.