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I came up with a story idea last night and then promptly fell asleep. This morning I kept working on the idea before getting out of bed (for about 45 minutes). I then proceeded to plot the story and start writing. I continued writing until 7pm that night, stopping for only an hour to take a shower and go buy more ribbons for my typewriter (which I've decided takes the best from both writing by hand and on the computer). I think I spent 6 1/2 - 7 hours writing today and ended up writing between 5000 and 6000 words. I know that this isn't by any means a record, but for me it's probably over a thousand more words than any previous writing session I've had.
My question is this: what is your longest sitting, both in time and words. I think it's just an interesting little thing to discuss.
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As far as hours go, I have no idea what my longest writing session was, although I seem to remember a couple days during my holidays that went from early afternoon to late in the evening. I typically do rough drafts on paper so I have no idea what the total word count would be. Not very high, me thinks. If it isn't a flash challenge, I tend towards slow and methodical.
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I can't find the file anymore to double-check word count, but I wrote 27 manuscript pages in one sitting once, which is approximately 6000 words in a different document I have, so maybe that was how much it was.
I have only been writing seriously for a year, and I still have major issues with BIC. I still have yet to write every day for longer than a month (and that month was NaNoWriMo, where I had whips cracking and etc to keep me going). I do spend an average of 4-5 hours per week, sometimes a lot more, writing or revising stories, but I go in spurts. Nothing nothing spate of furious activity nothing nothing nothing.
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Back in high school, I decided to start a journal, which turned into more of a first person narative journal about the summer before. I did the entire thing in one day, something like 16-20 hours. I don't know the word count, but it ended up being around 30 pages.
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At bootcamp last summer I wrote a 6600 word story in 4 hours. That's the most I've written in one sitting. Another time I wrote a short story (~5000 words) over the course of a Saturday. Probably eight hours in all. That's the longest time period I've spent writing.
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it basically means forcing yourself to write for a certain amount of time at the same time every day...
ANYWAYS, back on topic... i really do not know for sure what my longest sitting time would be, but i did write an entire epic poem in one session once... it was almost like i was the reader, not the writer, the words kept coming out so well.
i'd say it took at least a few hours.
as for length... well.... something like 21 pages handwritten... i have no idea the manuscript pages length or the word count.
of course, seeing it was an epic poem, the word count was probably pretty low, considering that you aim for shorter lines with that kind of work.
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Are we counting grad school papers worked on the day before the deadline? 'Cause if so, my record is pretty long, but I was usually too dazed by the end most of the time to really be sure exactly how long, how much, or even just what I'd written. Fiction often comes much more slowly for me, and must usually be done in smaller chunks. I don't think research papers are really meant to be coherent.
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Minister, definitely not. Under no circumstances are we counting that. :-)
I finished the rought draft of the story this morning and ran OCR on the whole thing to get it into my computer. I discovered that my long sitting was over 6.5k words. Ridiculous.
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