Not a lot of people share writing statistics. I'm a nerd, so of course I will. The hope is that it will be a helpful benchmark to anyone following the King system. I'll be cross-posting this on Reddit and the On Writing forums.
I thought it might be helpful to show real world numbers produced by semi-rigid adherence to King's 'On Writing' system.
Why 'semi-rigid'? I don't write every day. I write 5 days a week, 8 hours a day. I also need to do a lot of the work that an editor or agent would do, as I'm self published.
The book (book 2 in a trilogy), was started on August 28th, and the final pass before being handed off to the beta read team was completed on November 3rd. That's ten 40 hour work weeks.
Statistics for 'Book 2':
The mean workday was 8 hours. This pace was good enough to maintain the 4 month inception-to-publish cycle, on time for an early December release date.
Expectations are that the third book will follow nearly the exact same timeline,
If there's interest, statistics for 'Book 1':
I hope this is helpful to others!
I thought it might be helpful to show real world numbers produced by semi-rigid adherence to King's 'On Writing' system.
Why 'semi-rigid'? I don't write every day. I write 5 days a week, 8 hours a day. I also need to do a lot of the work that an editor or agent would do, as I'm self published.
The book (book 2 in a trilogy), was started on August 28th, and the final pass before being handed off to the beta read team was completed on November 3rd. That's ten 40 hour work weeks.
Statistics for 'Book 2':
- Pages: 193 - A4 - Google Docs
- Chapters: 20
- Words: 100312
- Characters: 552256
- Characters w/o spaces: 454804
- Average word length: 4.53
The mean workday was 8 hours. This pace was good enough to maintain the 4 month inception-to-publish cycle, on time for an early December release date.
Expectations are that the third book will follow nearly the exact same timeline,
If there's interest, statistics for 'Book 1':
- Pages: 154 - A4 - Google Docs
- Chapters: 18
- Words: 87141
- Characters: 477341
- Characters w/o spaces: 392243
- Average word length: 4.50
I hope this is helpful to others!