: Re: What is a good daily word count goal? As a NaNoWriMo participant, I've been trying to meet a rather ambitious 1667 word/day goal. I've heard that professionals do a lot less, but the first

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On the extreme side, Lester Dent was able to write a whole Doc Savage novel in about two weeks, perhaps less. We're not talking great literature here, but he is generally considered to have written the best Doc Savage books (all of them were published under the name "Kenneth Robeson", and they came out monthly). They weren't all that long, so figure about thirty-five hundred words a day, sustained, as the high end.

Some authors seem to be able to write a novel of maybe eighty thousand words a year, of good quality. That's more like three hundred words a day on the average.

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