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Is writing 1000 words a day possible?
Is it easy to write 1000 words in a day? In most cases, yes! The average writing speed by hand is around 20 words per minute. And the average for typing is usually double at 40 words per minute. Writing 30,000 words will take about 12.5 hours for the average writer typing on a keyboard and 25 hours for handwriting. The time factor is the main reason we can’t write 10,000 words every day. However, picking at least 1 day per month to write 10,000 words gives us an extra 120,000 words…on top of the 365,000 words we’d produce through writing 1,000 words per day. If you write too much too quickly, you’ll go off at tangents and lose your way and if you write infrequently you’ll lose your momentum. A thousand words a day is a good ticking over amount. Write 1,000 words a day, five days a week, before you do anything else. At the end of a week, you’ll have twenty pages-a chapter.
Is writing 2000 words a day good?
In a Reddit AMA, Sanderson echoes King and Sparks before him, advising that 2000 words a day is a good amount to shoot for because “that gives you about a book a year.” Personally, he writes: “…about 2,500 words a day, writing at around 500 words an hour. Stephen King: 2,000 Words However, this is not always the case. In his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, King speaks on his writing speed. He would set a daily goal of about 2,000 words. This would add up to about 180,000 words in three months of writing. King replied: “Here’s the thing: There are books and there are books.” He explained that he writes for three or four hours each day and tries to produce a half dozen “fairly clean” pages in that time. “So if the manuscript is, say, 360 pages long, that’s basically two months’ work — but that’s assuming it goes well. 1,500 words single-spaced is 3.1 pages. A standard single spaced page contains 500 words. Single spaced also depends upon the family font, font size, and page margin. A 1,500-word count will create about 3 pages single spaced.