750 a day is reasonable?
Jan. 7th, 2007 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Just went over to
novel_in_90 and read the userinfo. I'm very glad to hear 750 a day is consdiered a reasonable amount for a professional writer. I've been doing that in longhand every day (except for those days when I do 500 or 250 because my brain's gone freeze dried). So why have I been beating myself up? And why haven't I ever finished a novel in 90 days?
Answer: those 500 and 250 days + my novels are too long + doing other projects on the weekens. If I brought my novels in at 80-100k, eschewed other projects, and didn't write in longhand, maybe I, too, could do it.
I'm on my way to solving one of those problems. My Neo will be arriving midweek and I won't have to write in longhand on my lunches anymore. We'll see if it makes any difference.
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Answer: those 500 and 250 days + my novels are too long + doing other projects on the weekens. If I brought my novels in at 80-100k, eschewed other projects, and didn't write in longhand, maybe I, too, could do it.
I'm on my way to solving one of those problems. My Neo will be arriving midweek and I won't have to write in longhand on my lunches anymore. We'll see if it makes any difference.
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