Write It

I'd like to know two things:

1) your aim for SoCNoC?

2) your usual daily (or weekly) aim?

I know there are a number of people who write daily so I'd just like to see a comparison.

Andrew Chilton - http://kapiti.geek.nz/
SoCNoC 2008 - Unknown and Untitled

1) 50,000 words at a daily rate of 2,000 words. I know that math don't work but it has contingency and the potential for getting 60,000 words. :)

2) 1,000 words

No Excuses. Just Write.
SoCNoC - Freeing the Flame
Freeing the Flame - 30,065/40,000 words rewritten for May

1) same, 2k per day

2) I'm happy with a couple thousand per week, if I'm not desperate to finish quickly for whatever reason.

*editing*

I'm aiming for 2K a day during SoCNoc but am well aware there will be days I write nothing and other days that I write 6k.

Usually I try and get out about 4k in the weekends when I am taking a break from study.

http://vyanae.blogspot.com/

I think a daily average of 2000 words is good.

I do not keep a current daily average like Kerryn or August or Cassy.

I want to, but I am really good at finding excuses every day. :)

Travis.
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http://cottreau.blogspot.com
http://cottreaureviews.blogspot.com/

I use 2K per day but aim for 5K over a weekend.
The trick I use is to write as much as possible as soon as you get a break.

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NaNo winner 2006, 2007
SocNoc winner 2007,
WWWwace 2007, 2008!!!
Easter challenge winner 2007
Body count: 1 Institute heads, 4 professors, 2 postdocs, 2 PhD students, 2 sequencing technicians and numerous bad guys...
Oh I wish I could put that on my CV.

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2K is good enough for me. Hopefully I can do that and still get my 50K done in 28 days....hang on, I'll do the math here...Yeah, I should be fine. 56K sounds good to me. LoL

~Jessi~
Blessed Be

I'm with the 2k a day brigade for SoCNoC, but I don't have any daily average otherwise.
It worked well for Nano and I found that I always caught up with skipped days and put the 50k total in on the 25th.
Since then I've been editing, over and over - I now have a completed 75k novel.
Editing is so variable, sometimes I had negative daily word counts!

maggenpye -
"He's not my dad, he's just my father - big difference."

Congrats on the edited 75K novel - very swish! I want one now. When it was just Kerryn, that was ok, but now that there are others, I am getting jealous.

Travis.
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http://cottreau.blogspot.com
http://cottreaureviews.blogspot.com/

jealous is the way to be, it seems. my Nano ended at about 500 words over the 50k goal... but i still love it.

for SoCNoC i'm aiming for 2k a day... but am a practiced procrastinator.

other than that,i take what i can get ;)

Doubt thy characters,
Doubt thy self.
-Me

During nanowrimo, I'd always do just over 2,000 words a day. Starting late, I'll have to make that target to finish 50,000 by the end of the month.

My goal for the month is a bit nebulous. I'm working with a the hulkof last years nano, which after editing left me about 20,000 words. These won't all be used in the story, because some scenes and conversatinos won't feature, characters roles have changed et cetera. There are some really big scenes that are going in, however, pretty much unchanged. I'm not going to count the scenes cannabilised as part of the word count for SocNoc, so my final target will be about 60-70,000 words, 50,000 of them being brand new original words.

I'm with everyone else. 2k a day is the way to success. On the weekdays, I usually just get that done, but in the weekends I get about 3k a day.

I feel like a bit of an overachiever today. I haven't even got dressed yet, and I've written 1k. Go strange plot ideas!

Normally, I don't really write much at all. I try to aim for 2k a week, but that inevitably means 2k one week in five. Unless I'm doing it in a big rush, I have procrastination issues

Sanity: Ha ha ha ha...look! A caterpillar!

My aim at the moment is 1000 words. But I keep missing.

Good god people! 2k? But 50k divided by 30 days is 1,667! Heh. That's my target during Nano and Socnoc. I often overshoot it, but 1,667 is the safe target.

I generally try to hit about 5k a week in writing. This does pose a problem if I'm only working on short stories. And it doesn't account for time spent editing. I generally writing during my lunch breaks.

There were a few people (cottreau, angrysunbird) who all seemed to hit 1,667 words every day and kerrynangell who hit pretty much 2k every day. I kinda did that last year but this years was just bananas and instead, I hit all over the place (from zero to 6k).

Wow, I couldn't write on my lunch breaks, too many distractions, not to mention having to eat :-)

Andrew Chilton - http://kapiti.geek.nz/
SoCNoC 2008 - Unknown and Untitled

Heh it all works out. Eat lunch in your morning or afternoon break. Hide. Write. It's regular and doesn't get interrupted. Plus you get the awfully public reputation with your work mates as a 'serious author sort'!