Check-In – Day 25

[samuraiter]

You are going to be seeing the posts go up early this week, thanks to a change to my schedule. Apologies. ... What have you been doing?

— Thinking. Maybe a little, maybe a lot.
— Writing.
— Planning and / or researching.
— Editing.
— Sending things to the beta.
— Posting!
— Relaxing, taking a break, etc.
— Other stuff-ing. Look at the comment.

Question: What is your preferred word count range to write for a story?

Comments

[brithistorian]

I've been writing about every other day on average. Yesterday I came the closest I've ever come to 2000 words: 1954.

I don't know if I'd say it's "preferred" but my goal word count range is the neighborhood of 100K words. I haven't reached it yet, but that's what I'm aiming for. I'm sort of like a runner who's training for a marathon: First you build up your mileage to the point where you can do it at all, then you try to improve your speed. Once I can actually produce 100K words, then I'll start working on producing 100K well plotted words. (Right know I can produce 40K-50K well plotted words, and everything beyond that is slice of life and/or a second story just glued on to the end of the first one.)