/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20105490]

What is a chad number of words per day to write (fiction). King says 2k which I can do in a few hours. Im just starting out so I dont know if I should stick to 2k or aim higher

[Anonymous No.20105558]

Ayy

[Anonymous No.20105659]

Ayy

[Anonymous No.20105674]

>King said 2,000
and Hemingway said only 500 per day. Here is a very autistic breakdown of how many words a masterpiece has (a rough approximation since its always very hard to tell precisely), and how long it took them to write it

>Lolita: 112,473 words / 5 years (approx. 1,826 days) = 61 words per day

>Gravity's Rainbow: 305,000 words / roughly 10 years (approx. 3,652 days) = 83 words per day
note that this is a very rough estimate as we have no concrete evidence about how ole Pinecone wrote GR, just rumors and bits of info from various sources and letters

>Ulysses: 265,000 words / 7 years (approx. 2,555 days) = 103 words per day

>Anna Karenina: 349,736 words / 4 years (approx. 1,460 days) = 239 words per day

>Moby Dick: 209,117 words / 18 months to write (approx. 540 days) = 384 words per day

>The Brothers Karamazov: 354,098 words / 2 years (approx. 730 days) = 485 words per day

>Infinite Jest: 543,709 words / roughly 5 years (1,826 days) = 297 words per day

[Anonymous No.20105875]

>>20105674
Bump good post

[Anonymous No.20105884]

>>20105490
It depends on what you are writing for. Writing words for the sake of writing words doesn't make a book good. I don't think you should strive to write a certain amount of words as that can ruin quality, just think about the book throughout your daily life if you are struggling and work from there.

[Anonymous No.20105891]

>>20105884
>It depends on what you are writing for.

Basically i have a year until im 30, i want to do all my "bad writing" and develop a unique style in a year so i can have my first novel published by 31

[Anonymous No.20105926]

>>20105674
Good effort post but it’s a little out of context: you have to remember that with 20th century lit, the last one and a half years are mostly editing and publishing. Also, during the editing process, much of the original manuscript is just straight up lopped off, so many of these numbers are going to be deflated a bit.

[Anonymous No.20105929]

>>20105490
Depends on your ratio of words to what ends up in the finished manuscript then again judging by >>20105674 these estimates, Nabokov had a terrible ratio if we are to believe him when he said his pencils outlasted his erasers

[Anonymous No.20105941]

>>20105891
Purposely writing something bad doesn't make sense to me. Many authors first books were well received.

[Anonymous No.20106010]

>>20105929
Imagine ever erasing. Just another reason to shit on Nabokov.

[Anonymous No.20106164]

>>20105941
Not purposely bro. I mean make all my mistakes, cliches, bad plot, bad character development in that year and learn from it. Im not a genius so my first work wont be great. Like any skill you have to make mistakes while learning before youre good enough to go on and write something worthwhile.

[Anonymous No.20106287]

>>20105490
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time for bed

[Anonymous No.20106509]

>>20106287

Typical american

[Anonymous No.20106514]

>>20106509
I wish this was the typical American

[Anonymous No.20106634]

>>20106514
It is. You fat fucks have niggers on the mind every second of the day, whether its watching niggers throw balls, watching blacked, or voting for a communist nigger twice.