Fun question, how many words do you write in a day?

by Adrian Sroka
24th October 2013

I noticed there’s a promotion for the NaNoWriMo competition in the Blogs section. You have to write 50,000 words in a month, an average of 1666 words a day.

Good luck to those who enter.

What’s the most words you have written in a day, or in a month?

Graham Greene’s tip is to write 300 words a day.

That's 2100 a week, 109,200 a year.

Enough for a novel and the beginning of book two.

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I admittedly never count how many words I've written.

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24/10/2013

I never give myself a target. some days I may do one page or even a chapter or nothing at all.

My first book was 227 pages. I wrote that in four week.

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damien Isaak
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i like the idea of making word writing targets. i might have to start doing that

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