Pretty Much, Rowling Writes for Six Hours a Day. That Is a Good Amount of Time and Acceptable for a Writer Who Is Doing This for a Living. for Me, I Write...
Pretty much, Rowling writes for six hours a day. That is a good amount of time and acceptable for a writer who is doing this for a living. For me, I write probably more than that.
How much does the average writer write per day?
Many lesser known or unpublished writers who blog claim word counts anywhere in the range of 500 to 3000 words a day with 1000 being the average. A few writers claim to produce between 4000 and 10,000 words per day.
King likes to write 10 pages a day. Over a three-month span, that amounts to around 180,000 words. "The first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months, the length of a season," he says. If you spend too long on your piece, King believes the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel.
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