Thursday, October 8, 2009

A lesson in math

A 400 page word would contain approximately 100,000 words. Given a pace of 1000 words a day, hard to stick to as evidenced by my lack of consistency, that would take 100 days, or 14 1/4 weeks. Add in a weekly day off, and that adds another 14 days, or two weeks. That makes it about a 4 month project, assuming consistency, determination, etc, etc, to complete a 400 page work.

Which says nothing of shaping the lumpy manuscript from something worth writing to something worth reading.

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