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10,000 words per day
The acclaimed childrens' author Enid Blyton reportedly wrote up to 10,000 words per day in her wonderful career. This sounded reasonably high (as indeed it is), and I decided to take a brief snapshot of my own writing for comparison.
My writing at the moment largely falls into two major categories: for the web and personal fiction work. Lets take a closer look at each.
Web writing
Although I run a number of sites, the two that comprise the bulk of my writing are this one, and Straight to the Bar. Taking yesterday as an example, the articles written for those sites were :
Strains and sprains (1,052 words)
Podcasts for writers (310 words)
Output for the other sites varies, but at a guess it is unlikely to exceed more than 1,000 words on a typical day.
Total: approx. 2,300 words
Personal fiction work
Most of my spare time this month is being channeled into NaNoWriMo (and I suspect I'm not alone in this); a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel (or novella) in a month. That's an average of 1,667 words per day, or around 2,000 if you want to have a few days' editing at the end of the month.
Now, as I'm far more used to research and non-fiction writing, my fictional output isn't exactly great. I'm currently sitting on around 8,00 - 1,000 words per day, or around half of the number required.
Total : approx. 900 words
That's a grand total of 3,200 words - a number which pales in comparison with the abovementioned 10,000. Naturally I'm only considering quantity here, but the quality of Blyton's work isn't exactly low. How many words do you get through on a typical day?
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