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Word counts: how many words famous writers wrote a day
The Novelry, The Novelry, n.d.
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- What it is
- A blog list of daily word targets for several established writers, including Stephen King, Graham Greene, Iain Banks and Dorothy Parker, with some desk hours added where the author could find them.
- How much weight it carries
- Informal and anecdotal: the figures are self-reported goals or recollections collected by a writing blog, not measured output and not a survey. Use them to show the range of working habits, not a norm.
Facts taken from this source
- A list of writers' daily targets gives Graham Greene's daily target as 500 words.
“Graham Greene: 500 words a day” (Daily word targets list)
- A list of writers' daily targets gives Stephen King's daily target as 2,000 words.
“Stephen King: 2,000 words a day” (Daily word targets list)