The experts say that 500 to 1500 is an average
daily word count for novelists and authors.
Not exact matches
Different methods exist
for boosting your writing output, such as getting into a
daily habit of writing a fixed number of
words per session or day, or by writing in sprints, against the clock, or using popular schemes such as NaNoWriMo to squeeze out a fixed
word count in a set time frame.
Whatever
word count is right
for you, stick to it
daily.
NaNo novels have been looked down on in recent years as being rush jobs that authors put to market far too quickly, but the writing itself is meant only to be a tool
for authors to hold themselves accountable to a
daily word count and to focus on their own writing processes
for thirty days.
Christina Li presents 2 Steps to Writing Your Novel posted at ChristinaLiBooks, saying, «This blog post takes novel writing and boils it down to its two most important elements: focus on getting to the next big scene in your novel and a plan
for how to complete your book with specific
daily word count goals.»
Though the merits of setting a
daily word count (whether it's 1,000
words or 2,000
words) are clear, it's not
for everybody.
For a novelist who starts today, the new
daily word count would only be 2,000
words.
The typical
daily average
for NaNoWriMo is 1667
words, which some authors manage to surpass in a day and therefore bank up a few days» worth of
word count.
For many authors there just is not enough time in the day to meet that daily word count and manage all the other aspects of being an author (social media, for exampl
For many authors there just is not enough time in the day to meet that
daily word count and manage all the other aspects of being an author (social media,
for exampl
for example).
Expanding on the author's highly successful process
for doubling
daily word counts, this audiobook - a combination of reworked blog posts and new material - offers practical writing advice
for anyone who's ever longed to increase their
daily writing output.