{"id":982,"date":"2011-11-28T01:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=982"},"modified":"2011-11-16T17:45:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T22:45:28","slug":"300000-words-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2011\/11\/300000-words-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"300,000 Words a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<br \/>\nI prove to myself that I can write 1,000 words a day with one hour writing per day.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been conducting a writing experiment. I wanted to learn if I could write at a pace that would produce 300,000 words in a year. This pace means 50 weeks, of the 52 in the year, six days a week, 1,000 words a day. The sub-goal is to write the 1,000 words in one hour.<br \/>\nWell, I could do it.<br \/>\nThis 300,000-word goal comes from writer Dean Wesley Smith. I couldn&#8217;t find the specific post of his, but <a href=\"http:\/\/deanwesleysmith.com\">here is the link to his blog<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/chrisguillebeau.com\/3x5\/how-to-write-300000-words-in-1-year\/\">Here is a link to another blog that mentions the same topic<\/a>.<br \/>\nI type fast enough to bang out about 1,200 words in an hour. I do more if I don&#8217;t have to punch lots of punctuation. Recently, however, I have been writing fiction with many conversations, and those conversations require punctuation marks everywhere.<br \/>\nI find that I can write one hour, proof read one hour, and then piddle around with ideas one hour. Three hours work in a day (something that Dean Wesley Smith discusses at length).<br \/>\nWhat is magical about 300,000 words. Well, as Smith explains, a novel is about 70,000 words these days. You can write four novels in a year at the 1,000 words a day pace. ePublishing makes four novels in a year possible. Traditional paper back book publishers wouldn&#8217;t allow a writer to write that many novels in the past. Smashwords and other iPublishing outlets are happy with this.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think I will write 1,000 words a day six days a week, but it is nice to know that I could do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I prove to myself that I can write 1,000 words a day with one hour writing per day. I&#8217;ve been conducting a writing experiment. I wanted to learn if I could write at a pace that would produce 300,000 words in a year. This pace means 50 weeks, of the 52 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}