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What's the average daily number of pages I should write every day?

What's considered average among profesional writers in history?

>> No.12150208

at least 500

>> No.12150217

>>12150202
over 9000

>> No.12150225

dfw said one a day i think while writing pale king but u know how that worked out for him lol

>> No.12150226

If we assume you're speaking of writing novels, it still depends entirely on what kind of novel you are writing.

I write a few hundred words per day, about a third of which will make it into the published work.

>> No.12150227

>>12150202
If I remember correctly, 10 pages daily was what this English writer who's name I can't remember forced himself to write to improve himself.

>> No.12150246
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>>12150202
Abstain from sex and masturbation and you'll write dozens of pages a day, effortlessly. Sexual excesses explain why so many people are lackluster and lacking motivation. The trick to abstinence is to remove provocative stimuli from your surroundings and thoughts. You do this, it actually becomes easy, so easy in fact that you'll feel less aroused than you normally would as the seminal vesicles cease producing as much semen which in turn makes you less prone to arousal from sexual stimuli.

>> No.12150247

>>12150202
if you can't come up with another page of material what good is stressing yourself into a writer's block with self imposed deadlines going to do