Words, Words, Words
01/08/20 10:50 Filed in: Writing | Writing Plan
Looking at getting stricter with my writing which is partly why I want to record it: as a document of success or failure and a rod for my own back (or something like that). I’m not sure what to aim for. It will probably be a matter of finding what works for me as I get into the writing daily habit. Be it 300 words or 2000 words (hell, I know it won’t be that initially).
I found a website called The Daily Word Counter <www.wordcounter.net> which had an article giving an idea of the daily word count of many famous writing as follows:
Ernest Hemingway - 500 words
Stephen King - 2000
Jack London - 1500
Tom Wolfe - 135
Mark Twain - 1400-1800
W Somerset Maugham - 1000
Sarah Walters - 1000
Sebastian Faulks - 1000
Michael Crichton - 10,000
Kate DiCamillo -600-900
Nicholas Sparks - 2000
J.G. Ballard - 1000
Ian McEwan - 600
Lee Child - 1800
Anne Rice - 3000
Arthur Conan Doyle - 3000
Arthur Hayley - 600
Graham Greene - 500
Holly Black - 1000
I’m not sure of the voracity of these numbers and whilst they show a wide difference; most are between a pretty manageable 500 and 2000 words. Given I can crack off a blog of 300-500 words or a flash of 365 words in less than an hour then having a daily word count of 500-1000 words should be achievable, I’ve also done NaNo successfully twice, which equates to 1666 a day.
I don’t think having the NaNo tick-tock is necessary but it certainly helps over the relative short term of a month. Without it maybe the very act of recording it will be the kick up the backside.
So let’s see how I go with achieving 500-1000 words on projects (not counting blogs) – incidentally this will be about 380 words.
Writing even that much/little will drive me into more projects and ideas i.e. finishing existing ones and getting me to new ones. Let’s see where I get to come November . In theory that should be 45-90.,000 words. Ha, we shall see.
First thing I’ve done is write down where I’m up to in various projects in terms of current word count so I can check up on progress.
Current Word Counts and aims:
TWO1 - 56,267 : 80,000
TM2 - 3946 : 6000
SC1 - 601 : 4000
TT1 - 1193 : 50,000
THS1 - 73 : 50,000*
* may get broken down into multiple short stories.
I found a website called The Daily Word Counter <www.wordcounter.net> which had an article giving an idea of the daily word count of many famous writing as follows:
Ernest Hemingway - 500 words
Stephen King - 2000
Jack London - 1500
Tom Wolfe - 135
Mark Twain - 1400-1800
W Somerset Maugham - 1000
Sarah Walters - 1000
Sebastian Faulks - 1000
Michael Crichton - 10,000
Kate DiCamillo -600-900
Nicholas Sparks - 2000
J.G. Ballard - 1000
Ian McEwan - 600
Lee Child - 1800
Anne Rice - 3000
Arthur Conan Doyle - 3000
Arthur Hayley - 600
Graham Greene - 500
Holly Black - 1000
I’m not sure of the voracity of these numbers and whilst they show a wide difference; most are between a pretty manageable 500 and 2000 words. Given I can crack off a blog of 300-500 words or a flash of 365 words in less than an hour then having a daily word count of 500-1000 words should be achievable, I’ve also done NaNo successfully twice, which equates to 1666 a day.
I don’t think having the NaNo tick-tock is necessary but it certainly helps over the relative short term of a month. Without it maybe the very act of recording it will be the kick up the backside.
So let’s see how I go with achieving 500-1000 words on projects (not counting blogs) – incidentally this will be about 380 words.
Writing even that much/little will drive me into more projects and ideas i.e. finishing existing ones and getting me to new ones. Let’s see where I get to come November . In theory that should be 45-90.,000 words. Ha, we shall see.
First thing I’ve done is write down where I’m up to in various projects in terms of current word count so I can check up on progress.
Current Word Counts and aims:
TWO1 - 56,267 : 80,000
TM2 - 3946 : 6000
SC1 - 601 : 4000
TT1 - 1193 : 50,000
THS1 - 73 : 50,000*
* may get broken down into multiple short stories.
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