I have my first writing job. Not that I haven't always considered this site a "writing job" because I have but with this site, I don't technically have a boss. Sure, one would argue that you all are my boss and there is merit to that but if I decide to take a day or weekend off I don't answer to anyone.
That being said, a friend who I don't talk to often asked me a question that I thought I would share with all of you. The question was "How many words do you write in a day?"Thats a tricky question because do you count texts or simply words written on the page? How do you qualify word count? For the purpose of this Rant, we will just say words that count towards a fictional story or an article that I am writing.
For my new writing job I have to write 2 articles a day at 400 words a piece, that's 800 right off the bat. I can usually do that in about an hour or so, depending on my motivation etc. Then theres the posts for GG, I normally try to do at least 5 written articles (sometimes I don't I know) and those vary between 100 to 150 words, not including Royal Rants etc.
Now with the nonfiction out of the way we turn to my fiction. I could lie to you and say I always write 2000 words on my big project but frankly I don't. I usually have a big project that I am working on and then a few smaller short stories (that somehow always manage to become thew basis for another big project) that I work on. For my big project I try to do at least 800 words a day, sometimes I make it, sometimes I don't. For the short stories I work on the word count that is given to me, some are 869 words but the majority is 1000.
So total I write about 3100 words a day. That total varies depending on a lot of factors but for the most part that is the average that I write.