2,000 Words a Day

This month is National Novel Writing Month. It's just a coincidence that I made my goal list this month and that it included writing 2,000 words a day. I had no idea until a few days ago. I don't even remember how I found out about it.

But I'm working on my novel. I'm writing 2,000 words a day...or more. But the minimum is 2,000 and that does not include anything else I may write, including this blog. The 2,000 is all part of the book.

And can I tell you something? 2,000 words a day takes about an hour and a half to two hours. Total. That is it. So imagine the sort of output I'd have if I doubled or tripled that? I never really considered, until recently reading On Writing, how long it would take to finish a writing a book. But if you write 2,000 words a, five days a week, you have 10,000 words a week. In a month...over 40,000 words. In two months...over 80,000. And if you write 4,000 words a day? Well, let's just say that when you look at the task in terms of words, daily writing to a goal, the idea of writing a novel in a month is completely possible. In fact, it isn't nearly as hard as one might think.

So here's to 2,000 words a day. Maybe even more. And maybe I need to take on this challenge and get serious and write my novel in the month of November.