• Patches@sh.itjust.works
    44·
    1 year ago

    If college taught me anything, it’s that I can write thousands of words per night. Typically fastest in the wee hours of the morning.

    None of these words are good, mind you, but they are in fact words.

    • Sheltac@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      Oh yeah. Some of my worst work is on those mega-inspired days where I sit for 10h and crank out 10000 words.

      To this day I don’t know why I do that if I end up throwing most of it away.

      Maybe it’s good to get bad plot out of the system.

      • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        November is National Novel Writing month and December is National Edit the Terrible Novel You Just Wrote month.

      • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        For me, a good day is about 1000 words. I really run out of juice after that and just type bland shit. That’s about 3 months for a decent draft.

        • Sheltac@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh it depends massively for me. One of my best (IMHO) short stories is 8k and was written over 10-12h in a day.

          But that has to be a pretty special day.

          On bad days I usually go into the negatives 😂