Alright, so I know my wordcount really is nothing impressive, but it is astounding to me that I managed to get this much done in one day without wanting to kill myself.
4,780. That was when I was playing catch up after writing 900 words for day one and no words for day two. Playing catch up again now, so word count will probably be something similar.
I just got off of doing a 10k day (defined by me as a 24 hour period). My arms are literally trembling and my left hand is a little bit swollen, but I made it with 33 words to spare.
I want to say that I agree with the other Nano'ers on this thread. Anytime you break 3k words in a day is something to write home about.
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In 'On Writing' Stephen King says that he writes 2000 words a day and that it varies how long it take him. Not too sure where you heard 10,000 words a day.
Today was awesome. Woke up with tons of ideas and typed, typed, typed. Stopped mid morning and drove twenty-five miles to the nearest pool. Swam for forty-five minutes with my head absolutely popping with ideas (I wished I had an underwater pencil, but chanted so I could remember them when I got out and dried off). Then it was back to the laptop to cram out more for a total of 4,315 words today. My total is 17, 318 so far. Happy!
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This year it's today's. I wrote 6676, I was catching up and then I got on a roll and wound up finishing tomorrow's word count too. Last year I had a day where I caught up 7000 and something words in one day.
4175. That was yesterday. Feels good, because now I can spend a little bit of time with my family during the weekend. I'm still gonna write, though, just not as desperately as I would otherwise.
Not as good as yours, and I can't remember it exactly, but it WAS over the 3000 word mark! Nothing incredibly impressive, but... Well, it's really impressive for me, personally. I haven't written ANYTHING in a really, really long time, been stuck with a horrible writer's block for around -- no kidding -- SIX YEARS.
So yeah... 3000+ words in one day was a really good number for me. :P
I was behind by more than a thousand words this morning. I've written FOUR THOUSAND WORDS and am past the 10k mark. I'm pretty chuffed with meself, to be honest (Americans: Google it.) Don't know if you can tell like :3
That would be Day 1: 6219 words. Today was a good day too, though. (Was as in, it's now just after midnight xD) Much less word, 2300, but also only had time to write during about two hours.
Today - 2,033. I know it's feeble by the standards of those above but it's my best so far and it has allowed me to finally nudge above the minimum average - for one more minute at least.
Best word count in a day!
Alright, so I know my wordcount really is nothing impressive, but it is astounding to me that I managed to get this much done in one day without wanting to kill myself.
3552 word in a 24 hr period
what is your best word count in a day?
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4,780. That was when I was playing catch up after writing 900 words for day one and no words for day two. Playing catch up again now, so word count will probably be something similar.
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Last year I did 10k in one day. That was a very big writing day and I don't know when the next time I'm going to do that is. This year is about 7k.
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I just got off of doing a 10k day (defined by me as a 24 hour period). My arms are literally trembling and my left hand is a little bit swollen, but I made it with 33 words to spare.
I want to say that I agree with the other Nano'ers on this thread. Anytime you break 3k words in a day is something to write home about.
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Apparently Stephen King writes 10k words every morning. That's his writing schedule and usually it only takes him about 4 hours to do it.
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In 'On Writing' Stephen King says that he writes 2000 words a day and that it varies how long it take him. Not too sure where you heard 10,000 words a day.
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Well kiss my grits! I don't know where I got the figure either, just doing my part to pass along unverified information.
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About 6800 in an 8-hour night... but I was very drunk so it probably doesn't count. :p
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Today was awesome. Woke up with tons of ideas and typed, typed, typed. Stopped mid morning and drove twenty-five miles to the nearest pool. Swam for forty-five minutes with my head absolutely popping with ideas (I wished I had an underwater pencil, but chanted so I could remember them when I got out and dried off). Then it was back to the laptop to cram out more for a total of 4,315 words today. My total is 17, 318 so far. Happy!
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My best word count so far happened yesterday, at slightly over 6,000 words.
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This year it's today's. I wrote 6676, I was catching up and then I got on a roll and wound up finishing tomorrow's word count too. Last year I had a day where I caught up 7000 and something words in one day.
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37,791
...left... thumb... hurts... so... much...
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My freakin' hero. <3
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4175. That was yesterday. Feels good, because now I can spend a little bit of time with my family during the weekend. I'm still gonna write, though, just not as desperately as I would otherwise.
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Not as good as yours, and I can't remember it exactly, but it WAS over the 3000 word mark! Nothing incredibly impressive, but... Well, it's really impressive for me, personally. I haven't written ANYTHING in a really, really long time, been stuck with a horrible writer's block for around -- no kidding -- SIX YEARS.
So yeah... 3000+ words in one day was a really good number for me. :P
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3000 plus words in a day is good for ANYONE I think. :D
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Absolutely
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Still at 5002, even though I didn't update that until the second of November so it became almost 3000 as I already had 2000.
Planning on making that 5k official today.
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Well, as a one day wordcount, of course. Then I'll be at 15k in total.
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DAMN IT! I'm at 14,867 instead =( ALMOST DID IT =O
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4003, baby!
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4000+ so far haha
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Mine's 3261.
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4040. It killed my wrists though. Apparently I wasn't used to typing anymore...
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Day One: 7039. It still amazes me how I did that without dying in the process.
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We had a very similar first day word count. Just under 7k.
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Mine for today was 7k as well (:
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So far 2,636, on my second day. With any luck I can beat that soon xD
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4006, in only three and a half hours! Write-ins are freaking amazing. I'm a full day ahead now!
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So far I've written 3409 today, but it's only four in the afternoon! Hopefully the number will grow as the hours pass.
And it's all because of writeordie.com!! I love it. I just discovered it today, and it really motivates me to write more.
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Writeordie is my favourite, too!
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Written? Kitten! just isn't enough of a prod for me either.. XD
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My day 2 count was ~6200 words. That's the best one so far.
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Yesterday I wrote about 6500 words :) Winning.
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This year? On Day 1 I wrote 10k in 24 hours. I could probably have done better if I hadn't been with friends for some of those hours ...
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6829 - which was on day one. No idea if I'd be able to do that again. The best I've done since is today (2619 and counting).
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I was behind by more than a thousand words this morning.
I've written FOUR THOUSAND WORDS and am past the 10k mark.
I'm pretty chuffed with meself, to be honest (Americans: Google it.) Don't know if you can tell like :3
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I would be chuffed to bits as well :3
( HAH! no googling needed. I giggle when I say chuffed though. hehe. chuffed)
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That would be Day 1: 6219 words.
Today was a good day too, though. (Was as in, it's now just after midnight xD) Much less word, 2300, but also only had time to write during about two hours.
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Today - 2,033. I know it's feeble by the standards of those above but it's my best so far and it has allowed me to finally nudge above the minimum average - for one more minute at least.
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Yesterday I managed to pound out 4,054 words in one day! *^_^*