How many words a day do "professional" writers produce?

[papaof2]

Here's a link about some writers you might recognize:

wordcounter.net/blog/2017/12/04/103207_the-daily-word-counts-of-19-famous-writers.html

The most I've managed in one day since I started keeping those records was 4335 words early in writing "Dark Days".

The best day this month was 431 words - and then there are the zero word days...

[rvm45]

Friend,

That was interesting. I knew that Hemingway's daily word count was abysmally low.

Hemingway—parenthetically—wrote a number of books that are worth reading ONCE. His extremely sparse style made for books that never merited rereading.

Jack London also used sparse style, but the had more entertaining stuff going on and I have reread some of his stories repeatedly.

I would have really liked to see Edgar Rice Burroughs' daily word count—or Robert E Howard's or Louis L' Amor for that matter.

Never mind.

They write as they write and it is of little help to someone who works differently.

I write 2000-3000 words when I'm on a roll.

I have every confidence that I could do 3x that much if I could touch-type.

My hands don't work right and I'm working with a tiny keyboard—so…I'm not going to set out to learn touch typing at my age.

Incidentally, every semester when I was in High School, my father would try to talk me into taking typing class. I got so tired of fending him off.

30 or more years after High School, he asked me to admit that he was right and that typing wasn't useless!!!!!!!

The man would come up with these OFF-THE-WALL-STUPIDITIES like this. I sometimes wondered if he did it deliberately to infuriate me,

I NEVER said that typing was a WORTHLESS ACHIEVEMENT.

I said that signing up for a High School typing class entailed MORE DRUDGERY than I was willing to submit myself to.

I repeated my position often enough. How in HELL did this get transmuted to "Typing is Useless"!?!

This underlies the idea that he seldom actually LISTENED to what I had to say…

And I don't regret not taking High School typing to this day. It WAS TOO MUCH DRUDGERY.


…..RVM45

[willc453]

Never thought about how many words I wrote either for a story or in a chapter....only pages, because I wanted the reader to hopefully get their money's worth time wise. And while here, I'm starting on page 3, chapter 28 of Thor's story.