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