Comments | zbohannan: One Thousand, really?

zbohannan

One Thousand, really?

Mar 30, 2009 19:05

Today I was linked to a blog entry by Brandon Sanderson, who was wrangled suicidally volunteered to finish Robert Jordan's mordantly verbose Wheel of Time series. In a long diatribe about book lengths and publishing standards, he dropped the nugget of knowledge that "the average writer can manage about 1k words a day." Now, I'm certainly no R.A. ( Read more... )

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xnair_al_saifx March 31 2009, 16:50:25 UTC

You need to check out _anacrusis. 100 artful words a day is better than 1000 word narrative a day. Then again, I'm fond of artificial boundaries on length.

zbohannan March 31 2009, 23:58:53 UTC

Ooh, that is lovely, though I get the sense I just plowed into the middle of a half-written story.

There is something to be said for succinctness, and I am definitely in that camp with my scientific background, but most professional writers, especially novelists, can't really live on 100 words a day. Although, I could be wrong.