Quillandink
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Yesterday I decided to procrastinate which went rather well.So far today I managed 1011, and I'm just about to settle down to give my keyboard another thrashing.
Yeah, okay. I guess if it's just about putting something on paper, you're absolutely right. I have to remind myself that this is 1st draft stuff and that they're not doing editing. As a first time NaNo participant, I'm struggling not to stop and reread, not to edit--to forget about all that stuff I usually do while writing. I see your point--if you look at the numbers, then yeah. Doable. A little crazy, but doable.It's believable if you look at the math. 24 hours, midnight to midnight. Being generous and assuming six hours of sleep, plus three hours for food, bathroom breaks, finger rests, stuck moments, etc, that's 15 hours to write. 50,000 words divided by 15 hours is 3,334 words per hour, or 56 words per minute. Cut a few hours of sleep or breaks, even lower. It's difficult work, sure, but completely doable.
Why do I find this so funny?Yesterday I decided to procrastinate which went rather well.
I suspect that if you're doing 50K in a day, you don't worry about such things either.
You assume these people aren't writing while eating or going to the bathroom? And if I'm doing 50K in a day, I'm expecting much less than 6 hours of sleep.
A gal at my midnight write-in wrote 900-something words during our 15-minute sprint. She caveated that it was more notes than novel, but that she counted it because it was noveling words and it was November. My guess would be that she took no time out to try to think of the right word or the best way to write what she wanted to say. I suspect that if you're doing 50K in a day, you don't worry about such things either.
I assume nothing, I was just being generous and making projections based on sanity. Which, of course, does not apply to writers. XD
November 2: 2182 (by my count), 2185 (NaNo)