So I just did an experiment to see how fast I can churn words out, so long as I'm not being at all particular about the quality of said words. And the answer is:
- 39 words per minute or 2337 words per hour
To be honest, I wasn't even trying hard. I kept taking sips of coffee, then using up my word count by moaning about how cold it was getting. But never mind that. These figures mean it should be possible - again, being totally unfussy about content and quality, to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November in any of the following ways:
- by investing a couple of hours every Saturday and Sunday (+ a little bit)
- by spending 45 minutes writing for each of thirty days
- by giving the task one hour for every day of the working week
That all sounds perfectly reasonable, doesn't it? Doesn't it????
Okay, so the problem is that I would like to have something usable at the end of all this, not a bunch of disjointed garbage interrupted with coffee rants.
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