How many words in one day?

[DeeZire]

Suppose you're writing fulltime, and the subject requires no research. How many words can you do in one day, including self-editing?

(This is research for my troll story, which is ready to submit, except for this one little detail.)

Thank you

 

[only_more_so]

Suppose you're writing fulltime, and the subject requires no research. How many words can you do in one day, including self-editing?

(This is research for my troll story, which is ready to submit, except for this one little detail.)

Thank you

Well, I have written more than 30k, but that wasn't a full day. I could probably do a 100k in a full day.

<edit> I forgot about editing, that's just how much I could get down in a day. With editing probably only 1/4 as much.

 

[NippleMuncher]

Oof, that's a toughie!

All my writing reqires massive amounts of research (non-fiction technical info ), so I write as I research, probably a few hundred words a day when I'm into it. A few years ago I was "free writing" and over the course of a day or two composed a 5K essay.

IMHO, the speed in which you write will be in direct correlation to the depth of knowledge that you have on a subject and the amount of inspiration you have to write about it. Also, depending on your typing and grammatical skills and you'll find your composition times affected.

 

[English Lady]

If I am writing andthen editing straight away but I have nothing else to do all day I'd say I could probably hit around 8k because it would take about four or five hours to write that much and a good 3-4 hours to edit it. so that's what, 9 hours of writing and editing? I've got to say you're not going to get much more than that out of me in one day*L*

 

[oggbashan]

NaNoWriMo

The NaNoWriMo challenge requires about 2,000 words a day to complete the 50,000 words in the month.

In the year I completed NaNoWriMo, I wrote the 50,000 words in 18 days including editing and submitting 12 separate chapters to Literotica.

The speed of production depends on several factors:

How accurate is your typing?
How well you can plan the story in your head.
How much or little editing is needed from the first draft.
How much pre-preparation you have done or need.

I think that about one third of Author's Hangout participants complete NaNoWriMo, so maintaining a constant output of 2,000 words a day is a real challenge. However, most of us cannot devote all day to writing, and certainly not 30 consecutive days...

Og

 

[Guest]

I wrote a novel length story last May that had me hitting 10,000 words a day, written and edited. I can do more or less depending upon how into a story I am and how many distractions I have.

 

[cloudy]

I've done 10k words a day, but those days are few and far between.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I'm in the same range as Cloudy. I can pull 10K words in the morning, but then I need a break from drafting. I go do stuctural planning or rotate to another project. I like to break drafting up. But with that said, it's been rare that I have had an entire day to work on writing. Happily, that's changing.

Editing I can do pretty much eternally. *laugh* Speed depends on where in the revision process I am. I don't normally do serious editing on a piece when I'm drafting it. I do multiple revision passes after.

 

[DeeZire]

Thanks for the responses. It looks like 10K writing/editing would be the average max, realistically speaking, on a fulltime day-to-day basis. This is exactly the info I needed for my troll story/satire. (I was going to say 2.5K words, based on my own experience, but I get stuck on grammar issues, which slows the process considerably.) At least now, no one can ding me for being off on this one point, although I'm sure the story will get dinged plenty, regardless of how accurate it may or may not be.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

Uhh!

Thanks for the responses. It looks like 10K writing/editing would be the average max, realistically speaking, on a fulltime day-to-day basis. This is exactly the info I needed for my troll story/satire. (I was going to say 2.5K words, based on my own experience, but I get stuck on grammar issues, which slows the process considerably.) At least now, no one can ding me for being off on this one point, although I'm sure the story will get dinged plenty, regardless of how accurate it may or may not be.

DZ, please don't ask me to edit!

 

[DeeZire]

DZ, please don't ask me to edit!

It's been edited by 'anon', unless 'anon' really wants to be identified.

I was hoping to submit another story before the troll story, so readers won't think I'm a one-trick pony trapped in the satire catagory, but I am a one-trick pony. Why fight it?

On the word-count issue, I just realized if I let my troll crank out 10k words a day, that would be giving him way too much credit. The guy's a mental midget. He's a fool. I think I'll stick with 2.5K, which would better match his limited abilities.

Thank you all for contributing.