Thread: How many words a day do you clock in?

^Wow I think i jinxed myself with this topic, i haven't written a single word on any of my stories for the last two weeks.

Kevin Lomas wrote: Is there a min word count that defines what a novel is? 30,000. That's about the minimum size for a book that looks like a book. Quote: Who says so? And have you not thought that a book can look 'thck' but have very large words in it? The obvious case is a book for young children. Then you might get a few avant-guarde works with a few words in huge fancy typefaces. But a normal story has to be normal point...

Malcolm McLean wrote: Kevin Lomas wrote: Is there a min word count that defines what a novel is? 30,000. That's about the minimum size for a book that looks like a book. Perhaps, but it would look more like a 'book' if it had 30,000 words with a 20pnt font perhaps? Or 30,000 at 2pnt font? I have just had a look at one of my book files and it has 69,000 words at 11pnt garamond over 260 pages, It looks like a novel. (Around...

That's basically what I've been doing all weekend. Though it's not firm steady writing since I'm on the computer typing that's hooked online so I'm surfing and writing.

Adam I agree. I have a little note book split into sections. Ones possible book names One is just general thoughts or things I notice in everyday life. And the final one is the actual plots to the stories and the characters names. As a suggestion, try the 5 whys way of plotting a story. Everytime you get stuck ask why is the character doing that, why would they go there, why do they have to do that, why is the character involved etc etc. It...

I've never tried to time myself. I just handed in a 25,000-word MS that took me about three weeks to write. That comes to about 1200 words a day, if I count weekends. R

A lot depends on what I am working on and what my goals are for the piece. I can spend several days on a 900 word short story, getting it perfected. I've also done 12,000 words in a long day of productivity (that was part of a National Novel Writing Month effort). When I am working on an ongoing project, 2,000 to 3,000 words is a solid day's work.

i try to atleast write 1000 words or more in a day if i dont have major writers block. the only issue i have with my writing is that i can speak it better than i write. like when i am walking down the street i verbally talk my story to myself and the flow is good. but when i get to my computer and start to write it i go brain dead trying to remeber what the heck i said.

I wrote my book in the 2 hours a day when my little boy had a nap! Knowing i only had that hour or two really focuses the mind and i could easy manage 2000-3000 words (i think) in a day, other spare moments were spent plotting the framework and chapter structure of the book, so every time i sat down i would be immediately writinng. The book took a year to write (i stopped writing during school holidays) and another year to edit it and make it...

I generally write about 8,000 - 10,000 words per day when I´m working. Seeing my comp was stolen, I haven´t written anything in a couple of months. I started in 1984 (Portentious!) and have, if I remember, 93 books on Lulu. and 14 that may or may not be published. On three of them (all three nominated for (ugh!) awards) the writing was in two day and one night sessions where 25,000 - words were turned out per session. I am impossible to...