Learn how to boost
your daily word counts with three simple techniques.
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.
Winning young writers who participate by posting
their daily word counts (with parental permission, of course) will also be entered in a drawing to win fabulous NovelRama prizes!
Among families who enter Providence Talks programs with
daily word counts below the 50th percentile, results show that these children are hearing 44 percent more words after participation, Molina said.
I have
a daily word count goal, and I can't afford to let the tools get in the way.
Hardly any potential reader wants to know
your daily word count or your rejection sorrows.
In most cases, this involves setting
yourself a daily word count or chapter goal.
It can be
a daily word count or a number of consecutive writing days.
Spend time having fun without feeling guilty about not hitting
your daily word count.
The editing can come later, but November is strictly about getting
the daily word count cranked out.
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.»
I might walk into the same house and think, «I wonder how Jane keeps this place so clean and still keeps
her daily word count so high.»
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.
A word count target: All successful authors have
a daily word count target.
The word sprints I've been doing with my core group of friends also doing NaNo — Karen, Amy, Janelle, and Andrew — have really helped me keep
my daily word count up more than anything else.
For a novelist who starts today, the new
daily word count would only be 2,000 words.
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 example).
It has all kinds of features like;
a daily word count, type writer sound effects, even timers and alarms.
I might have gotten a little carried away; writers will forgive me if I say it was after
my daily word count and I might be a little punchy.
Tracking
my daily word count was a technique I used to help me get more professional in my approach to writing.
I also set
a daily word count goal that is attainable and i do nt beat myself up if i miss my mark.
Your daily word count and the editorial side of production is your first priority.
The experts say that 500 to 1500 is an average
daily word count for novelists and authors.
Set
my daily word count goal low, then when I shoot over it, I often feel inspired to keep going anyway
Not exact matches
But, the
daily output yesterday, not
counting blogging, was close to 10k
words.
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.
I had hoped to have these up earlier this week, but a looming deadline in the day job kept me busy (I barely found time to meet my
daily word -
count goal).
Whatever
word count is right for you, stick to it
daily.
It wasn't until I got serious about
daily production that I started thinking in terms of
word count.
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.
Even if it's just an outline, know beyond what
word count you want to achieve
daily and dig deep: how many books do you want to sell
daily, monthly, quarterly, yearly?
A few months ago I decided to start tracking my
word count on a
daily basis.
However, being accountable to my
word count spreadsheet on a
daily basis makes me want to write something or do something
daily towards building my author business.
Do you plan a
word count goal
daily?
Now I'm back to producing a
daily word -
count because I have no choice — there's a contract and money involved.
Whether that's a
word count of 500 per day, Stephen King's recommended 2,000, or prolific self - published author Bella Andre's
daily 7,000, routine is the way to fight the «blank screen blues.»
As you focus on meeting your
daily NaNoWriMo
word count, your houseplants may begin to shrivel and dust bunnies may reproduce as fast as, um, actual bunnies.