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See also the pages on the project to write a 50,000-word novel in November - National Novel Writing Month:
Author | Book(s) | Preferred time to write. | Hours of writing
per day. | Rate (approximately) of words written per hour or day. | Reference. |
Gary Paulsen | Young-adult novels: Canyons (1990), Woodsong (1990), Hatchet (1988). | All the time. | Nineteen or twenty hours every day: said he was "totally, viciously, obsessively committed to work. ... I don't drink, I don't fool around, I'm just this way. ... The end result is there's a lot of books out there." | The Writer's Almanac for Wednesday, May 17, 2006 | |
Alexander McCall Smith | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | 4,000 per day | Interview by Giles Whittell in The Times (August 21 2004). | ||
John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath | Most weekdays; sometimes on a Saturday.
Started warm-up writing between 10 and 11 a.m. most days, through sometimes after 12 noon. | [May to October 1938.]
Daily goal of 2 hand-written ledger pages and 2,000 words per writing day. Weekly goal of 10,000 words. Overall goal of 200,000 words in 20 weeks. | Working Days. | |
Jane Smiley | 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel | First thing. | "I get up and write three pages a day and try to do that five days a week. If I come up to some fact that I don't know, I stop and jump on the Internet and try to find out about that." | Maria Schneider. p.43 of Writer's Digest January 2006. | |
Anthony Trollope | The Warden | Early morning, roughly 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. | 3 | 1,000 per hour | |
The Weekend Novelist | The Weekend Novelist and The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery. | Every weekend for a year. | ? | ? |
Books on Buddhism.
Poetry - Learn How to Write Your Own. Forests of California and Trees of the World. |
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