When the word count gets you

I’m working on a story for grades 3-6 and I was tracking my word-count-to-time-invested progress. By which I mean, I was writing and getting mad that an hour in, I was only at 225 words.

Then I had to remind myself of a few things

There is no standard pacing when it comes to writing. Some days, the scene takes 10 minutes, some days it takes 10 hours. Writing shorter stories is an intense endeavour. As authors, we only have 5,000-7,000 words which means every word and action and thought has t...