Highest wordcount in a day

[Lee]

I just finished a hard-fought 800 word day, and saw on Twitter that another author had a 6000+ word day. That's like ... a short book in itself.

My highest total ever is 4000 or so. What's yours?

[Amy: PROUD DIRECTIONER]

My total word count that I've written in one day? Well, that depends on how much of the words I keep. I will write and rewrite paragraphs and sections until I like them. My highest word count... I'd say around 3,500 words. Each day I write about 500-750 words, then come back the next day to edit and continue writing.

[Lee]

ha, i'm glad to know I'm not super slow then. Today I wrote another hard-fought 950, and I was okay with that.

Generally, 1000 words is the goal.
1500 is a good day.
2000 is exceptional
2500, I'm ecstatic.
3000, I write a 1000 word story based on the day i wrote 3000 words.
4000, I remember and post on goodreads 4 years later.

[[deleted user]]

My highest is around 5,000 words in a day, but I guess even that is dependent upon a deadline. A publisher pays and a writer provides.

[Hilary]

I can write about 3500 words a day, but anything more than that is pushing physical exhaustion and straining creativity beyond its ability to deliver.

[Lee]

Recently I've been hard pressed to make it to a thousand words a day. I think it depends mostly on what style I'm working with.

[Rachel]

My highest is a little over 8,000. But I'm going to need to beat that this weekend if I'm going to succeed at NaNoWriMo (I have 30k to go in five days!) I write about 1,000-1,500 words per hour if I know what I want to say.

[Lee]

Best of luck, Rachel. That'd be a paragon of writing sessions right there.

[Marcia]

My personal best was a little over 8,000. But that was on a novel for NaNoWriMo, and I'm a pantser when it comes to writing fiction. Because I'm an editor at heart, the only way I could write that much was to put the editor in my head in time-out for the day