…That’s what Stephen King says you should aim for. It’s also around the pace needed to win the fifty thousand word NaNoWriMo challenge. King advises writers not to spend more than three months on their first drafts, and to write every day without fail- a thing that for me is quite a challenge at the moment.
I’m about thirteen thousand words in, and I’m finding it’s true: you do tap different parts of your imagination when you have to write at great speed. It’s quite liberating to just write… But it’s also a real test of my willpower not to dither over points, or look back over what I’ve written. But I think I’m learning a lot about letting a story breathe and grow organically. And I’m also having fun.
If you haven’t read Stephen King’s On Writing, I’d thoroughly recommend it.
