tristania wrote:

I think that I must be the slowest writer on the planet.  I don't even want to admit to how many words I write in a day.

You should read the blog post tristania.  It goes onto say that he didn't post this to put down people with low word counts and that as long as you are putting pen to paper consistently that is all that matters.  Of course I just told you what it says, but he puts it in a much better way than I do.

There are a lot of days that I'm in the negative - write 750 words, take out 1000, lol!

I remember a week when I got in the zone and it was so fabulous it made me want to give up my day job and find a garret to live in.  Otherwise, in normal life, I'm more like c.e jones.  I did a writing workshop and part of it was to write something about something.  Then we would read out our bits.  Well, others had pages of writing in their 5 or 10  minutes and I would have half a page.  I would look up furtively from my white sheet and see scribbling hands that looked as though they would suffer cramp any second.  Then my mind would go blank and my mouth dry and at reading time you could barely hear me mumble - the only fortunate thing was my contribution was short.     Writing slowly is how I write.  What Live Evil says about just writing is what I was told.  The first and most important step to being a writer is to show up on the page every single day. And don't edit your first draft.  Just write the thing.

Brian Keene is quite obviously not a married woman with children. I'd like to see him snatch a WHOLE WEEKEND to himself devoted entirely to writing otherwise!!

Not that I'm insanely jealous or anything... ;P

When its all in my head I MAY manage to write 2000 words after a long day at work + construction sit + 2 small kids. Most of the written stuff is crap and I have to re-write and delete a lot of it. So 80.000 words - OK! No problem! Give me red wine, 20 joints, and three days all for myself. Uh! And a maid.
The question is how crappy the 80K piece is ;-)
Annelie