A friend of mine--a prolific, multi-genre short story writer like me (who I'm not naming because I didn't ask permission to quote him)--wrote in an e-mail yesterday, "I’ve been cranking out the words like never before (hoping to hit 27,000 this month, more than double what I used to average)."
My first thought was, "Holy crap!"
That's double my monthly average.
Then I realized that's less than 1,000 words/day. At my speed that's only twenty minutes of typing, leaving seven hours and forty minutes to think up what to type.
And I realized why I'm not as productive as I want to be: I think too much. I'm spending seven hours and fifty minutes a day thinking and only ten minutes a day typing.
Starting tomorrow, I'll cut ten minutes off my thinking time and add it to my typing time.
2 comments:
Say it ain't so, Joe.
Must have blundered into a horror writing blog. Not sure I can deal with the concept that there's a writer more prolific than Michael ... at least not before my first cup of coffee on a Monday morning!
It scares me, too.
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