The Pratchett Principle

400 words a day will get you there.

“For more than three years I wrote more than 400 words every day. I mean, every calendar day. If, in those pre-portable days, I couldn’t get to a keyboard, I wrote hard the previous night and caught up the following day, and if it ever seemed that it was easy to do the average I upped the average.”

Sir Terry Pratchett

Just 400. That’s the deal Sir Terry Pratchett made with himself back when he decided to become a professional writer, back when he still had a d...