How many words do you write a day?

[Chaos_Sinner777]

Sometimes a few thousand, sometimes, none. For weeks at a time. Sometimes I even try to write but barely manage a few hundred. Maaaaan, writer's block is weird.

 

[Not_A_Symphony]

Well, personally I only write when I am in the mood, I can't force it otherwise it turns out like complete and utter garbage BUT, I usually write every 2/3 days. Usually I do 3k per day but if I feel inspired I do a lot more than 3k (like 6k or even more than 10k). It varies

 

[Armored99]

It really depends on how much research I need to do. I don't want to brush everything with "magic" or complete 'it is what it is' to fill out the story. For example I spent two hours yesterday reading articles on trees and mushrooms so I could write 500 words.

 

[ElliePorter]

When im super pumped to write the story down, i can do 1.6k words.

On normal days, i write 1.2k words, sometimes it reaches 1.3k - 1.4k depending on the scene.

For extra chapters. I write about 400-900 words.

 

[NotaNuffian]

...I stopped writing since the start of 2021.

My passion long dead even though those at the porn sites ask for more.

I only start to pick it back up two days ago, at 100 words or less.

 

[Pujimaki]

1k to 2k, sometimes 4k when I'm motivated.

 

[Anon_Y_Mousse]

I usually hit 3k words in one sitting whenever I make a new novel with a brand new idea. But it kinda becomes harder to write as it goes on. That's why I decided to write an entire "volume" of a novel before posting it. Dunno if that type of thing will help you.

 

[Redemit]

5

 

[Plantorsomething]

Well, I used to write 1k/day when I first started, and it broke my sanity. So now I’m writing 300/day (but I think I’ll try to do 500 because I’d want to save up some chapters as one person said I should).

I don’t count but I’m estimating around 500 (if you exclude how much I delete/edit which is probably a lot more than what I actually put out.) and I hardly write everyday

 

[_oinkchan]

Well, I used to write 1k/day when I first started, and it broke my sanity. So now I’m writing 300/day (but I think I’ll try to do 500 because I’d want to save up some chapters as one person said I should).

2k

 

[wildan1197_]

Well, I used to write 1k/day when I first started, and it broke my sanity. So now I’m writing 300/day (but I think I’ll try to do 500 because I’d want to save up some chapters as one person said I should).

Usually 1 to 3 pages. But it was all written in my mother tongue. I had to translate it into English with my meager skills before it was published

 

[RayneStorm]

I try to write at least 2k words a day. Sometimes it's less. Most times it's more. Lately I've had days where I can write over 4k words but those are not as often as I'd like. I'm trying to get up to 3k words per day with the goal of writing about 5k words

 

[Deleted member 54065]

If I'm in my writing mode, I can write 10k words a day. But it's usually full of unnecessary words, so if I trim it, it falls into 8k words.

In my normal days, I don't write. (I draw, work and play as a space ninja)

 

[Derin_Edala]

I don't measure by day. I've been writing continually for years and expect to keep doing that for many more, so I absolutely cannot afford to risk burnout. Measuring by the day increases stress and guilt on non-writing days and leads to paralysis. I measure my word goals by the month -- minimum 15k per month, so an average of minimum 500-ish/day (depending on the month). I reached this number by figuring out how much I can write every day before writing starts to feel like 'work', which is about 1k words. (I can write 2k comfortably, and push as high as 10k for special events like nanowrimo, but above 1k/day starts to feel like a job.) Then I halved that amount, so the word goal would give me absolutely no stress whatsoever (because it's so achievable), allows for emergencies, busy schedules or writer's block, and means I usually finish halfway through the month and have half a month off writing. (When I reach my monthly goal, I have to stop at the next natural stopping point, usually the end of the chapter. I'm not allowed to write again until next month, even if I feel really inspired. This gives time and space for editing, creativity, and planning/getting excited about future plot points with no writing pressure. This is essential to avoid burnout long-term.)

 

[SakeVision]

Some days I write 5000, some days 500, some days not at all. I don't know what consistency is.

 

[tenthousandsuns]

When I wrote my original Royal Road story as a fun challenge I tried to do 30k a day as an homage to Robert Silverberg who once banged out a book in 3 days that was published and did well for Nightstand books(a smut publisher) as a personal challenge. He was a sci-fi grandmaster but spec fic crashed in the 80s and my man needed to pay the rent on his NYC townhouse. He said he usually did a full book a month. I suppose technically in his genre the books might have only been 60k but I was unemployed and had tons of free time.

Anyways that lasted for a day and then I was getting about 5-10k words and I dropped the story for personal reasons pretty quick.

If I had a strong idea and no personal life interference I could probably do 30k a day for 10 days. Might have to pop some modafinil on slow days. Currently my story gets 50k-10k a day depending on if there is a big battle. It is a maximum crunch litrpg, though not a vrmmo, so big fights can hit 9000 words. As fight scenes are primarily combat logs with varying amounts of description or strategy discussion it is actually very little work to break 5 digit word counts if the fight is a major fight.

 

[JK-Sama]

I aim for 500 words minimum, though I don't tend to write every day. Sometimes I make it, other times I might fall a little short. Sometimes I exceed it but that depends if I'm on crunch delays or simply in the mood. Pic is my word history since July; I'm on hiatus right now since I've been experiencing burnout since as early as April after 1 1/2 years of perpetual writing and wrapped up volume 2 beginning of August and took that chance to throw in the towel to rest for a while.

*Scrivener 3 has a function that tracks your writing history, there's no difference between 'draft' and 'other' tabs

 

[Xeoz]

Right now, I'm doing 2-3k words per day since I have the entire day to write. Depends on the chapter if it'll be mostly conversation, fights, etc.

 

[GreenHexagon]

~500/day because i usually have a bunch of ideas I want to put down but I don't want to overdescribe (>1000) or make it too vague (<200)

 

[MaiStarberries]

So long as I'm not being lazy and actually sit down to write, I can usually manage ~1k-1.5k in a day comfortably. Typically, I do 15-minute writing sprints (usually 500-600 words each) where I focus more on word quantity over quality just to get my chapters down onto the page first, so I usually do a couple of those in a day.

But, you know, sometimes I just get lazy and don't write for like a week.