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by smacktoward
4121 days ago
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He regularly writes 2500 words/day. Every day. This isn't much, but becomes huge if done regularly. Actually 2,500 words per day, every day, strikes me as a lot of writing. I did NaNoWriMo (http://nanowrimo.org) a couple of years ago, and to hit the "50,000 words in 30 days" target for that you have to turn out around 1,700 words each day. I'm a fast writer compared to a lot of folks -- just look at the length of some of my herniated HN comments to see what I mean -- and even I found that target to be a pretty big lift. It's do-able, I got in my 50,000 words, but by the end of the month I was exhausted. I can't imagine doing it every day for the rest of time -- and that's only 68 percent of the words Sanderson says he's turning out. |
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>[..] I don't think I write all that quickly. I do about 2000 words a day, most days. That's 250 words an hour working a normal schedule, and I often work more. 250 words an hour is NOTHING. Try typing a few emails, and you'll find out how fast 250 words goes by. I think for me, there are two secrets.
- [From his AMA earlier today](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_b...)
So, he writes around 8 hours per day, which is something you'd expect him to do at his level. You have to realize that he does writing for-a-living, full time. Most people doing NaNoWriMo aren't doing it full-time.
But yeah, he's definitely writing _consistently_, and that's what I find interesting.