On Feb 28, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Doug Brewer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/28/13 4:05 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> I try to average about 1000 words per day. I write in a wide variety of >> journalism and marketing genres, and some of my work is highly technical. >> However it isn't the kind of service manual or textbook writing commonly >> characterized as technical writing. My max is about 2200 words per day, but >> I rarely work that hard. > > I'm currently writing fiction, and if I can get 500 words down in a day I > think I'm on a roll. Of course, that's means I've probably written two or > three thousand to get that 500. > That's one way to work -- edit as you write. Some writers just fire away and then edit five to ten thousand words at a time. I wrote a novel a while back. I did most of my editing in spurts -- usually when I thought things were going askew:-). For magazine and newspaper articles I generally have a sense of where it has to go, so I write the entire piece, then edit. How extensively I edit is directly related to how well I'm paid and how much exposure it will get. For the Times, I generally go through seven or eight full revisions, ending up with a version G or version H.
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