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Sebastian Faulks on his daily word count (The Spectator, 4 October 2012)
The Spectator, 2012
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- What it is
- A 2012 Spectator article in which the novelist Sebastian Faulks describes how many words he writes on a typical day, usually between 1,400 and 1,500.
- How much weight it carries
- A magazine interview and a single writer's own account, so it is a self-report from one author rather than data from many writers. The page did not carry a headline that we could confirm verbatim, so the title is our description of the article.
Facts taken from this source
- In a 2012 interview, the novelist Sebastian Faulks said that his daily output usually settles between 1,400 and 1,500 words.
“usually settles at between 1,400 and 1,500” (Interview text on daily word count)