How many words do you aim to write in a day?

by Adrian Sroka
5th March 2017

How many words do you aim to write in a day?

Graham Greene advocates 300 words a day, which doesn’t seem many at first glance.

Yet 300 words a day is 2100 words a week – 109,200 words a year. Enough words for a novel and a good start to a second.

My target is 500 words a day.

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Today, I am hoping for one perfect sentence. Who knows how many words it will be.

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@Dan: Imagine deleting more than you write!

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I try to write more than I delete.

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