• @[email protected]
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    451 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
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      61 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
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        81 year ago

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

        • @Sheltac
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          41 year ago

          December

          Haha, more like the entire next year.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 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
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          11 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 😂