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Gustavo
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Date Joined Aug 2007
Total Posts : 1211

Posted 4/3/2008 7:50 PM (GMT -4)

I've heard of at least one guy with a record of 14K a day... Not sure if that's actually healthy, though!

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Jared Evers
Neophyte

Date Joined Feb 2008
Total Posts : 183

Posted 4/3/2008 8:15 PM (GMT -4)

If I've hit my target word count and still feel like writing, I try to use the technique of stopping when I get to a good part so that I'm excited to get back into it the next day. So far it's worked every time. But mileage may vary, of course.

Firlefanz
Sage

Date Joined Mar 2007
Total Posts : 1203

Posted 4/4/2008 2:10 PM (GMT -4)

Doing 1k words a day is great. I used to keep track in an Excel file that told me the total for the month and the story. Sadly, I've gone completely out of that habit.

Excel is also great for tracking submissions. I have my file color coded for what's out, what's been accepted, what's published and what needs an edit badly. (And I keep a list of where each story was rejected, so I don't accidentially send it a second time.) Works a treat.

:)

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Hannah Steenbock

Mystical Adventures
Sphaira

"Die arische Frau" in Pandaimonion - Die Formel des Lebens
"Der Weg nach Eridani" in Earth Rocks 3/2007 (pdf)
"Minkus, the Masterful Magic-Mender" in - AlienSkin Magazine, Featured Fiction

Thirdy Lopez
Adept

Date Joined Jul 2007
Total Posts : 846

Posted 4/5/2008 9:36 AM (GMT -4)

Finishing a story or two poems a day is a great day for me. My output varies though. If I write flash fiction, I can sometimes do two/day.

Alas, most days, I'm not as lucky.

Aurelio Rico Lopez III aka "Thirdy" has had fiction featured in COLD FLESH (Hellbound Books), THE BLACKEST DEATH I, II, and III (Black Death Books), SPORTY SPEC: GAMES OF THE FANTASTIC (Raven Electrick Ink), STAR-SPANGLED ZOMBIE (Maniac Press), RAW MEAT (Sideshow Press), SHADOW BOX (Brimstone Press), TRIP THE LIGHT HORRIFIC (RAGE machine Books), DEAD MEN (AND WOMEN) WALKING (Bards and Sages), and THE BOOK OF SHADOWS VOL. I (Brimstone Press). His poems have appeared in Mythic Delirium, Star*Line, Dark Animus, Goblin Fruit, Scifaikuest, Electric Velocipede, Sybil's Garage, The Horror Express, Down In the Cellar, and elsewhere.

Thirdy Lopez
Adept

Date Joined Jul 2007
Total Posts : 846

Posted 4/5/2008 9:39 AM (GMT -4)

I'm not sure I remember correctly, but didn't Bradbury finish Farenheit 451 in a day? That's what I call some MAJOR ass-in-chair writing. LOL

Dean Koontz said he wrote the novel LIGHTNING (still one of my favorites) in three months.

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