Ghostwriter Diaries – How Many Words a Minute?

I don’t do numbers. I preferwords. All the same, numbers can occasionally be relied upon to do some funky things.

For example, this morning I finished chapter eightof the current novel, keeping me on schedule to complete the finaltwo chapters of the first act by 30 September– the first of my three incremental delivery deadlines.

It also means I’ve been working onthis latest manuscript for almost exactly one month – 32 days to be precise. With acurrent word-count ofjust over 28,400, that mean...