Anybody time this - How long does it take to write 2000 words?

On the best of the best of days, I can write 2000 in 2 to 3-1/2 hours.

Of course, it will vary from person to person, project to project. An easy brain dump might hit 2,000 words in an hour. A technical article that isn't coming out right might need 4 hours or more to hit that mark. Some projects never get there at all.

Same with poetry: sometimes 100 lines just hit the page in a rush, and sometimes 5 lines (like a limerick) can take an hour to get just right.

= scott

When I go ballistic, an hour.

Standard is about an hour and a half.

Hey, SP, I do a daily 2000 first thing in the am with my morning coffee. It usually takes me 2-3 hours.

Morning? MORNING? You write in the MORNING?!

Heathen!

Honestly. No matter how tired I am through the day I come alive at night.

There were a number of occasions I started writing in the late afternoon and got around 8,500 words done by bedtime, though.

Yeah, the internal editor can go hang when I'm working on a first draft.

Funny thing is, when I ignore the blighter and just write like my face is on fire, I end up getting in the zone and what comes out is better than the 'angsting over every word' crap I churn out when I go slow.

Feast or famine, that's me all over. I either write nothing at all, or thousands of words in a day. Well, in a few hours.

Two to four days. Next question?

I am now scared.

"This morning I sat down to write.
I inserted a hyphen.
This afternoon, I removed it." Oscar Wilde

While writing The Toast Bitches, I had a limited time to get 50K done. When approaching the crunch, I made a habit of noting the word count at the beginning of my sessions, then at the end so I could figure out how many I had to write per day in order to reach my deadline. I think I hit approximately 1500 to 2000 words during a two-hour stint, on average. But that was only when pushing myself in the wee hours before sleep.

I can do it in an hour or two, depending on how 'into it' I am at the moment. I'd say about an hour and a half.

This doesn't include much editing.

Between 1-1/2 and 2 hours.

Three to four hours.

I think mostly the braggarts responded. I couldn't write 2,000 words in an hour if my life depended on it. If I'm in the groove, I can pump out 2,000 in 3 or 4 hours.

Dunno if you were joking or not; I'll assume so, but there's no boasting in saying "I can write 2k in an hour and a half," if it's true. I mean, Kevin asked, so...we answered.

If I've got a hook and in the groove, I'm with SP -- about an hour.

Average: 2 hours (so, 1,000 words/hour and 16 words a minute; 4 words every 15 seconds)

Bad days: I'll do 2,000 words in 4-6 hours

Worst days: I'm on the couch catching up on SportsCenter (or Snooker, which is apparently dominating EuroSport right now ...)

Is it? WHUT? WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME?!

*cue jokes about Neil Robertson getting felt on the table*

Didja see what I did there? CUE? FELT in the table?

I'm wasted here...

An hour for me, providing I don't ruminate much mid-sentence.

2000 words usually takes me about an hour and fifteen minutes to write, if I'm in the groove. That is not to say that all two thousand words are good, but they do get writ. Writing 2000 words well; now that takes a bit longer, but no more than two hours tops.