My daily writing goal is a minimum of a thousand words. Some days those words come easily and I sprint on by, never noticing when the benchmark is surpassed. Other days, I slog through, checking periodically to see if I’ve met my self-imposed standard. It’s amazing how I can toil for hours and only produce 478 words. And then hours more to have merely added another twelve.
One of my writing heroes, Stephen King, writes 2,000 words or more a day. I’ve reasoned that he’s probably not also doing laundry, shopping for groceries, and maintaining a fairly clean house on a daily basis as I do. But who knows? Maybe Mr. King scrubs toilets between paragraphs. Now that’s something I’d like to see.
The thousand words a day have added up to more than 40,000 words in my current work in progress—Reunion at the Happy Valley Motor Inn and Resort, the third book in my Happy Valley series. That’s almost half a book. Its predecessors are doing well, thanks to my lovely readers (links below, of course).
Now, if only the number of words in a blog post counted toward my daily word count I’d be well on my way to 1,000 words. Alas, that is not the case and I’d best get to writing because no one wants to purchase half a book.
Peace, people!
Praying for Eyebrowz 
Maybe your books could pay for a domestic?
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Maybe…
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You can make up your own rules, right?
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I can and do. I find if I let a day go by without meeting my goal then the next day is harder. It’s all mental, I know.
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Thanks for the update, since my writing life is lived vicariously through you! Sounds like progress. Can’t wait for the other half. Stephen King likely takes his own potty breaks, but I don’t think he is the domestic goddess you are.
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Lol!
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Yep and some days you can bash out 300 words in like 30 mins but others…….. oh dear. xx
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Today was a struggle.
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There’s days the words just do not come. I used to sort of write like a certain number aday but now I look at how I turf twice that number when I am editing like , as in this amount is but a fraction of what is gonna end up cut, so I try to be kinder to myself.
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I know that I have a tendency to be a bit lazy if I don’t set goals. I have to use psychology on myself.
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Well equally I do find the way to get ANYTHING done is to chip away and set a goal.
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That’s how it works for me.
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I wonder how many words I churn out on a daily basis? Mine are all for work though, so that probably doesn’t count!
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Probably not…
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I admire you for having a goal and more or less sticking to it. Stephen King most certainly doesn’t have all the household chores. At least it would really surprise me…
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Who knows?? Maybe Tabitha (his wife) has him trained well.
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I use the same rationale: if I had a cook, a housekeeper, and a gardener, I’d get so much more written. The Stephen King cartoon made me chuckle. Yep – that’s how it would have been.
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My husband wonders why I can’t turn out a book every two months…I say, I could if you’d find someone to cook for us.
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Ps: You need to install a follow button in your sidebar. (I found your blog this morning via Storyshucker’s mention, by the way.)
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Oh! I thought there was one there. I do all my bogging on my iPhone, so sometimes the finer points escape me! Thank you!
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