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Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
pcpoet:
I am impressed. the most I can do in a day is about 3,000words
Snowleopard:
We all work at our own speed.
Don't judge yourself by anyone else pcpoet, that never works out well.
pcpoet:
not judging myself but I am still impressed
The Deposed King:
I can do a little over 1k an hour when I'm motivated. If I have an outline on paper and clear image of what I want to write inmy head I can burn through it. For the 15k day I did 8k in 5-6 hours sitting at McDonalds where I switched out 3 fresh batteries in my laptop and for the remaining seven it took me something like 12 hours as I sat on the couch and just ground on it on the couch at home refusing to go to sleep until it was done.
Frankly with outlines I have two factors. One I 'can' write faster when its there. Two my motivation to write goes down because I know pretty much exactly what's going to happen so my fun level as a reader/writer goes down.
I figure that if you treat writing like a full time job and pull 1k per hour for 6-8hours every day then 6k+ per day is reasonable so long as its all plotted out before hand. So I set my target for 5k as reasonable to achieve. But if you're just putting a couple hours of serious work in every day then 2k per day is easy to accomplish. Again if you know what you need to write about before hand and give it the same focus as you would the day job for that time.
Writing gives you back what you put into it and its great cause at 2k per day x 360 days you'd get 720k words written in a year and at 80k-120k for a book that's a minimum of 6 books you could write in a year, just working part time 2 hours/2k every day without fail. With fail for weekends and holidays maybe 4 books.
It all depends on how many stories you've got ready and free time etc.
Best of luck with everything,
The Deposed King
The Deposed King:
FYI - the most I've ever heard written in one day was from John Ringo who said he once sat down and wrote 25k before stopping.
I've never done that.
FYI 2 -And I know Chris Nuttal writes about 8k a day every day without stop until the book is done. Then he takes two weeks to plot out his next book and rinses and repeats. (40 odd books up on amazon and more every month)
Haven't done that either.
So like snowleapord said, don't judge yourself by others. Figure out what you can and what you want to do, then go out and try to do it. I can't run marathons and I haven't run 5 miles in a day but that doesn't mean the mile or two I have done is anything to sneeze at. The same goes for writing.
The Deposed King
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