• Sheltac@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    Oh yeah. Some of my worst work is on those mega-inspired days where I sit for 10h and crank out 10000 words.

    To this day I don’t know why I do that if I end up throwing most of it away.

    Maybe it’s good to get bad plot out of the system.

    • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      November is National Novel Writing month and December is National Edit the Terrible Novel You Just Wrote month.

    • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      For me, a good day is about 1000 words. I really run out of juice after that and just type bland shit. That’s about 3 months for a decent draft.

      • Sheltac@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh it depends massively for me. One of my best (IMHO) short stories is 8k and was written over 10-12h in a day.

        But that has to be a pretty special day.

        On bad days I usually go into the negatives 😂