LupusDei
curious alien
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I consider 3,000 words a day as a full writing day, but sometimes I go up to 9,000 words and occasionally I do zero. I try to do at least 1,000 words. And all that said, that's just a general feeling of being productive or not. I don't have any set needs or requirements on wordage written. And, like any regularly producing author, it isn't all about generating wordage. Some time is spent in researching a different story than the one I'm writing or reviewing already-written stories to go to the publisher or cleaning up edits when they come back. I can have a highly productive day without doing any writing at all.
I find this whole tread mighty encouraging.
I'm an idiot who dream about writing smut in language I don't speak, and when the objective need to write overcome the rational futility to try, the added technicalities mean I can barely produce 1000 (English) words of highly questionable value in one exhausting sitting of about 3-4 hours. Obviously, I can't get even that with any regularity either. Still if that's anywhere comparable with daily goals of true writers then my frets about my inability to write may not be truly based in reality at least in the most technical sense of it.