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I've heard of a lot of writers who record their progress through daily wordcount recrods. I think Hemingway did that a lot, so it's interesting to see someone's actual record. anywhere from ~200 to ~2000 words a day. Good to know even the good writers have slow days!
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My methods vary constantly, but since the beginning of the year, I've printed up a one-month calender page, and written down what I've written day-by-day. I'm usually a five-hundred-words-a-day kind of writer, when I'm writing at all, which, judging from this calender, isn't much since March...
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One time, a friend of James Joyce noticed that Joyce looked distraught. When asked, Joyce said that he was despressed about the progress of his writing.
The friend asked Joyce how many words hehad written that morning.
"Seven," Joyce said.
"That's a large number for you, isn't it?" the friend asked.
"Yes," Joyce said. "But I don't know in what order to put them."
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I think it's very very interesting that he uses longhand in small notebooks for novels...it's actually what I do, for the same reasons he gives; portability, and it forces you to do a revised 2nd draft. I use black Bic disposables tho...and on a downnote, I carry the notebooks with me in my bookbag, also sometimes with a bottle of Frappucino, and one day the cap on the bottle came loose. My pages weren't all that damaged, really only the edges, but I was still livid.
I lost an entire notebook once many years ago, which would have been technically my 1st ever novel. I had it in my bookbag, and went to the diner in town to meet a friend. I left the bag behind when I left, and it never turned up again. I had over 170 handwritten pages finished...*poof*. But, by that time I was losing interest in it anyway, and *temporarily* stopped working on it, suspected that I would never finish it. My theory is that the notebook got angry that I was ignoring for so long, and so made itself scarce to tick me off. This year alone I started two novels and didn't finish them; I'm currently working on the 3rd.
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