How Fast Do People Write?

[Sonatatre]

I am also one of those people who think more about writing, and my stories, then I spend writing them. When I do actually write, I seem to be able to put down 500-1000 words per hour on average, depending on how much time I need to research, or think about important choices for scenes and characters.

I consider myself very slow when it comes to getting stories completed, but once the groove hits I think I can work at an average writing speed, having some of the plot already planned, and most of the characters development already completed, with all the hours of thinking about them.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Hey, 9, 814 words today and I still have a couple of hours to go. My valentine story has really moved today. On a roll, I know what's hapening and right now its just fill in the spaces. Theres a lot of spaces, mind.

 

[Harryasaboy]

Zipping right along

Sometimes a sentence a day, sometimes a thousand words. I'm not very fast even on my best days.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Hey, 9, 814 words today and I still have a couple of hours to go.

Bloody hell, Chloe, you're a word beast! That's impressive!

 

[ChloeTzang]

Bloody hell, Chloe, you're a word beast! That's impressive!

That was a really good day. No interruptions, a week dsy when I wasn't working. Just wish I h as d more like that coz yesterday was just a few lines.

 

[TxRad]

That was a really good day. No interruptions, a week dsy when I wasn't working. Just wish I h as d more like that coz yesterday was just a few lines.

The sky is the limit when the words flow just right and there are no interruptions. But that is an unusual circumstance most of the time.

Chloe the Word Beast. Interesting title.

 

[ChloeTzang]

The sky is the limit when the words flow just right and there are no interruptions. But that is an unusual circumstance most of the time.

Chloe the Word Beast. Interesting title.

I did laugh. And yes, it was one of those dsys when everything was aligned. You feel so good after one of those.

 

[lilonemissingm]

it takes me about a hour or less to throw out a short story.

 

[ChloeTzang]

it takes me about a hour or less to throw out a short story.

Wow. Me, I need an hour just to adjust my head, think about the story and get started. But I'm not good at short. Short for me is 10k words.

 

[StrangeTamer]

I write slow, some days it's 100 to 500 words some days I just reread what I've written pick it apart and rewrite it.

 

[FortySixtyFour]

My writing speed's apparently influenced by the alignment of the stars, often when I have a day off and have set aside time strictly to write and make progress on my project it turns into trying to squeeze blood from a rock.

Other times I'm on shift at work too insanely busy to even respond to people in complete sentences and I find myself scrambling for a scrap of paper so I can jot down an series of ideas or interesting descriptive phrasing before it slips away.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I write slow, some days it's 100 to 500 words some days I just reread what I've written pick it apart and rewrite it.

Oh, I have those rewrite days. I'll take a whole story and rewrite it coz when I come back to it it's just not doing what I wanted.

 

[StrangeTamer]

Oh, I have those rewrite days. I'll take a whole story and rewrite it coz when I come back to it it's just not doing what I wanted.

Those days ( or should I say months lol) can be rewarding, I rewrote rebirth and now I'm much happier with it. Now I just need to submit an edit.

 

[Unnaturaldesire]

I'd say it's pretty difficult to measure in that I rarely get the opportunity to sit and write uninterrupted. I find it difficult to write when I am not alone. However if the conditions are ideal and I actually have a subject I want to write about then the words will flow fast so 10000 words shouldn't take more than a day. However I do admit that the first form will be absolutely riddled with errors and the going back and doing edits and rewrites will take another week or so. For me the actual urge to write comes with a lot of nervous energy and if I don't get it down on paper or type at that moment then I will easily loose the construct. So for me it really is an urgent thing, I think that has to do with me wanting privacy whenever I do write whether it is erotic or not and that privacy rarely being in abundance.