How Fast Do You Write?
How fast do you write?
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> Amy
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Daniel
Not as fast as I'd like [img]/emoticons/cry.gif[/img]
It's not production that kicks my butt - it's that thing you do with kicking the little squawkers out of the nest. [img]/emoticons/wink.gif[/img]
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Daycare centers are good for little squawkersDavid BH Pitchford said...
Not as fast as I'd like VIEW IMAGE
It's not production that kicks my butt - it's that thing you do with kicking the little squawkers out of the nest. VIEW IMAGE
Squawkers was intended to refer to intellectual children. Our boys are 16 and 18(in ten days). They're fine boys, and great analogs for two of my main characters. They even consult with me and give me better feedback than half my fellow students not so long ago in college.
I could send them to Daycare, but I know how wild those chicks are . . . and my boys are too good-looking to chance it. [img]/emoticons/wink.gif[/img]
Incredibly prolific penster
crystalwizard said...
Daycare centers are good for little squawkers
David BH Pitchford said...
Not as fast as I'd like VIEW IMAGE
It's not production that kicks my butt - it's that thing you do with kicking the little squawkers out of the nest. VIEW IMAGE
Oh, my! I just (unsuccessfully) tried to make the deadline for a Gothic anthology I came across belatedly on Ralan.
Pushing really hard and skimping on sleep, I was producing about 1200 words a day.
Now I have 4000+ words and an "outline" for five more major scenes that will all sit in my electronic trunk - probably forever.
I'd cry, but salt is very bad for snails.
-Barb
Amy's a pro, us newbies don't write that fast. When I'm in Shitty First Draft mode, I can get like 500 / hour if I have a scene mapped out in my head.
Jordan Lapp
Managing Editor
Every Day Fiction
20,000 words a day I can do when I'm programing. When I'm writing though, 10,000 is about the highest I hit. On the other hand, I've managed to put out 7 books in 3 years, and most are completely edited.
How fast can you edit?
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i only have my first novel, wip, to go by.
i started typing directly into the pc for
the first time with the rough draft.
my average is about 40 - 50 minutes
of writing with 1200 - 1600 words in output.
then i'm burnt out.
with revision, i can revise about 20 pages
in two hours or so.
cindy p.
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I take the Yoda stance -- "no try. do. or do not. no try."
But I get a bit obsessive (and excessive) about goals; mostly I think because they are about as common for me as a good bottle of scotch . . .
What's an "outline" [img]/emoticons/confused.gif[/img] [img]/emoticons/confused.gif[/img] [img]/emoticons/confused.gif[/img]
Incredibly prolific penster
BarbT said...
Oh, my! I just (unsuccessfully) tried to make the deadline for a Gothic anthology I came across belatedly on Ralan.
Pushing really hard and skimping on sleep, I was producing about 1200 words a day.
Now I have 4000+ words and an "outline" for five more major scenes that will all sit in my electronic trunk - probably forever.
I'd cry, but salt is very bad for snails.
-Barb
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David BH Pitchford said...
What's an "outline" [img]/emoticons/confused.gif[/img] [img]/emoticons/confused.gif[/img] [img]/emoticons/confused.gif[/img]
It's when you draw a line around your TV and say, "Self! Stay OUT !"
Jordan Lapp
Managing Editor
Every Day Fiction
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David BH Pitchford said...
I take the Yoda stance -- "no try. do. or do not. no try."
But I get a bit obsessive (and excessive) about goals; mostly I think because they are about as common for me as a good bottle of scotch . . .
What's an "outline" [img]/emoticons/confused.gif[/img] [img]/emoticons/confused.gif[/img] [img]/emoticons/confused.gif[/img]
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Well, in Yoda-stance terms, I did not. The Force was apparently not with me.
An "outline" for me, is just aswarm of plot ideas thathave sorted themselves into a linear progression, with sticky bits of dialog, etc. hanging on for dear life.
No resemblance toaformal numeral and letteroutline whatsoever. [img]/emoticons/wink.gif[/img]
-Very Slow Barb
I can usually pen a short story in a day (approx. 1000-1500 words). If I still have some juice, probaby 2 or 3 poems too.
Not much, but it'll have to do.
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I can write at 2000 words/hour when things are really flowing, but not for any sustained length of time.
I have written a complete 12000-word story in a day (15 hours), but was exhausted for three or four days after that.
Normally I'll try and write at least 1000 words in an evening session. If I get a whole day to sit and write, I hope to hit about 5k, but that opportunity is infrequent these days.
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Best I've accomplished is a 9k story in 8 hours, but I'm more on the bad end of speed, rarely getting any writing done in a day. I think my best period was 3 summers ago, getting anywhere between 1k and 4k words a day for about a month. But that requires sitting down somewhere and actually doing it, and man is that difficult! [img]/emoticons/shocked.gif[/img] Oh, sorry, wrong forum to admit that in. [img]/emoticons/smilewinkgrin.gif[/img]
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Hi everybody -- Hi Daniel!! I'm OK - but I was planning on going to NASFiC (which is going on right now) but due to personal issues and illness, couldn't go.
There's kind of a follow-up. Dave Truesdale is doing a giant survey of short fiction markets that pay at least 1 cent a word. Online, print, anthologies - anything. So there are a number I know that people participate in here, so if you have any info for him, respond. Some people are saying "short fiction is dead" - and I don't do it for the money, that's for sure. But if you have any info for him - pls. respond to his survey:
http://asterling.typepad.com/incipit...ruesdale-.html
> Amy
Hey Jordan!! Keep writing!! Good on that WoTF good news!
Hey where'd my answer go? I said "Hi Daniel!!" And thanks to everybody for discussing how fast they write.
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Oh -oops, I see my answer now. I must be blind.
So long as the written word exists, I doubt it will ever die. Just my thoughts.
ASterling said...
Some people are saying "short fiction is dead"
-TBS
I went, I saw, I wrote and linked [img]/emoticons/smilewinkgrin.gif[/img] Thanks!
ASterling said...
http://asterling.typepad.com/incipit_vita_nova
I transported my archives of writing articles - Clarion, MFA, Writers of the Future and the manuscript and critique guidelines. So they are all there now. These are free to anybody that can benefit from them so link away!
~~~~~~~~~~
Jason M. Waltz
Fantasy Acquisitions Editor Staffs & Starships Magazine
~~~~~~~~~~
Ever waltz with the Devil? Visit von Darkmoor's thoughts to find out (and read a review or two).
~~~~~~~~~~
Critical Eye of the Dragon Avatar courtesy of crystalwizard</font>
On 7/24, I was at about 36K on my present novel. I'm now just over 60K.
Plus 2K into a short for some antho or another.
Incredibly prolific penster
It seems like it takes forever. But then I tell somebody I'm finishing a novel I started on July 5th, and that the one I finished on July1 I started on May1 and the last one took me 6 weeks and they act like that's too fast to be feasible.
So....I dunno? Tortoise? Hare? Speeding bullet?
If I clear out my schedule and focus on a day of writing, I find that 5,000 words is my maximum for that day. After that, I am mentally drained. My best sprint was 2000 words in 90 minutes. I wasn't trying to go that fast. It just happened. Of course, when I mentioned this to my co-author, he got pretty upset with me. He accused me of nottaking the writing project as seriously as I should, and threatened to drop out of the project. Of course, I had the last laugh. Just three days after our little "episode", I found out that a publisher agreed to publish our first novel. I'm not sure what would have happened if he did drop out, and then we got that letter.
Mike
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i average 80 wpm, i'll say 50 wpm when i'm thinking and writing, and then i have to rethink, of course, bringing my average down to 25 wpm at best.
i can write for 3-4 hours solid, 5 hours on a good day, so about 4,000 to 8,000 words in a day. granted those aren't always NEW words, but there you have it.
...ryan
There are WAY too many variables in my day to try to time myself. Sometimes, when I am not interupted, and I'm really rolling I get at least4k or maybe more.
I do write every day for at least an hour or two, even if it is only polishing a piece from a previous day's work.
I home-school my daughter, so I type while she is working on her assignments but that is in between the hands-on lessons I do with her.
I have a goal of at least 2k per day that I USUALLY meet, unless I have to go out of town. I also find pre-dawn to be my most productive time.
Of course, I should be writing now and not spending time here.............
well there's 130 words right there anna =) add it to your quota.
wheee.
...ryan
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