First-time Novelists: Setting a Daily Word Count

Consistency is the key. Set a writing goal. Can you write 750 to 1000 words a day? If you can do that, you will have a first draft in around 90 days.

Do you have a rough sense of how long you want your book to be? Is it War and Peace or Old Man and the Sea – because when you sit down to write it, you want to have a sense of proportion. If your first act is a hundred pages, then you probably want the book to come in around 350 to 400 pages.

Do you have a daily writing routine?

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