I was reading the author’s note to Piers Anthony’s On A Pale Horse, and in it he talks about how he had written nearly 500,000 words in the previous year. He also noted that his novels sell in the range of 90,000-110,000 words each. That means he writes roughly five novels a year. If you work it out, it comes to about 1,500 words a day. Frankly, I could do that pace pretty easily. All I would need to do is have the discipline to sit down and do it. The writing part is not that hard. It’s the starting to write that is hard.
So, I’m going to try to eliminate all the things that I do that simply waste time, primarily browse the Internet and play online poker, and use that time to write. My goal: 1,500 words a day. At the end of the day, the key is simply having the discipline to write. I hope to cultivate that. The good news is that at that pace I should have the first draft of my fantasy novel done in two months. We’ll see how it goes!
