Words

by Adrian Sroka
20th September 2015

How many words do you write in a day?

I aim for 500-600.

Graham Greene advocates 300 words a day. That's 2100 words a week, 109,200 a year. Enough for a novel and a good start to book two.

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Once I get started, I write until I stop - no aim except to have written something that's either a complete scene, or that breaks off at a point where I can pick it up again tomorrow.

One assumes Greene meant finished words, after all the editing and tidying up. I wonder whether he would have aimed higher if he were using a computer rather than pen and paper or (presumably manual) typewriter?

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Would you suggest 300-600 words per day as a MUST, with rewrites later cutting out the padding?

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Jimmy Hollis i Dickson
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My goodness!

If I could convert all the words that I use in conversation and on various web-sites into USABLE words in stories, I'd be on my second shelf by now.

(That's wall-to-wall shelving.)

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