Write like You're Going to Die!

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I know that there is a quote similar to the title of this post but I couldn't find it.Oh, and yeah, welcome to a Sunday blog post! Whoooo!




I was talking to a few friends the other day and asking them how long they thought it would take me to write the list of books that I posted on Thursday. Recap: there were 19 novels and 4 novellas. Let's say a novel is 70,000 words and a novella is 30,000 now if we add all of those up....




1,450,000 words




Well that's a lot of words. It gave me butterflies just calculating it. I'm going to take a moment to soak that in, whoa. Just, whoa. That's a lot of words. That's a lot of books.




How long do you think it will take me to write them?




Like I was saying, I was talking to my friends about this, one of them said that it would take me a decade and another said 8 years. I was quite shocked at both answers because I can write a 70,000 word manuscript in just under 25 days---when it's the only thing that I'm writing.




Lumen took me 24 days and I didn't plan a page of that...well it was rough, the kind of planning you do as you're doing it. I absolutely hated that method, in fact I really don't know how I finished it, and that's probably why it's taking me so long to get it edited.




I'm going to set some reasonable goals now.




I have to write 1,000 words before I'm allowed on the internet. And then I have to break and write another 1,000 words.




I want to get 2,000/3,000 words in a day.




If you read yesterday's blog post then you'll know how much free time I have. Yes, I have a lot! So reaching this shouldn't be so hard, it's the internet's fault! It's created a monster in me, but without the internet I would never have met you guys, my wonderful readers!




Do you have writing goals/daily targets?




If you do have targets then I hope you reach them! And if you don't, come back here and I'll try and inspire you.



-Joseph



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