How much did you write today?

[Yora]

50,000?! That's a small book.

I did 2,000 yesterday. My best so far.

[Alex Hormann]

50,000?! That's a small book.

I did 2,000 yesterday. My best so far.

To clarify, the 50,000 wasn't a single day. Oh, how I wish it were.

I've been slowed by lambing, but I reached the 60,000 point yesterday. The project goal is 100k, but I'll likely go over that.

[CameronJohnston]

60k is so close to 66k - 2/3 of a whole novel!

I always aim for 100k as a nice round number, but go over that in fleshing things out. I'm trying to get 1000 words a day done at the moment and I'm almost at 33k on this new WiP - 1/3 of a novel, and from there 50k and 50% are in easy striking distance.

[Alex Hormann]

I stick to the same pattern too. A novel in a 100 days is good going, even if there is editing afterwards. Always feels weird how the first 50k feels so slow, the the second half feels like it's going to quickly.

[Ray McCarthy]

I think anything over 40K is a novel. There isn't a clear demarcation between a longer novella and a shorter novel.

Most stories have an ideal length. Beta reading / Editing / rewriting is partly discovering what it is.
I'm working on "Goths and Rooks". As a result of Beta Reader feedback:
One scene is re-written and a bit longer.
A chapter is inserted. No idea yet how long it will be, as I'm currently writing it. There was too big a jump in time for the style of story.
A later chapter ended to abruptly causing confusion at the start of the next chapter for the reader. I've added about 1k words to the end of that chapter.
 

[S. K. Inkslinger]

I've written around 2,000 words for a short story yesterday. It felt kinda forced, since I was writing because I had nothing else better to do (well rather than browse the internet aimlessly), but it's something, I supposed.

[Alex Hormann]

Managed 1016 words to reach a total of 92316 words.  Slightly less than anticipated, but that is a third novel in the trunk. Not publishable of course, but this is the one I'll be going back to edit in a few months.

Now to make a start on those short stories I have planned.

[JMack]

At the moment, only 250ish words, but there will be more.
I’ve gone back to my Gin and Magic concept (think Dashiel Hammet’s Thin Man, but with magic  ).
I haven’t touched it since before my heart attack two years ago.
It’s so much fun to write in this style.

[Eclipse]

At the moment, only 250ish words, but there will be more.
I’ve gone back to my Gin and Magic concept (think Dashiel Hammet’s Thin Man, but with magic  ).
I haven’t touched it since before my heart attack two years ago.
It’s so much fun to write in this style.

I want to read this 

[Alex Hormann]

Kicking off the new project with a solid 1200 words.

[JMack]

I’ve been working my way past 3,600 words on a short story.
Acts 1 and 2 are compete. Not quite feeling Act 3 yet.

[Ray McCarthy]

...
I’ve gone back to my Gin and Magic concept (think Dashiel Hammet’s Thin Man, but with magic  ).
...

Coincidently it's the very next ebook on my TBR pile. Just read 1st page.
Not writing as such, but re-writing / editing The Mission's Talent, the last book in the series. It's at about 127 k words and needs a lot of work. Almost 500 comments on the 1st complete draft, but the Beta Reader (Alpha Reader) liked it and how it ended the book and series.

I didn't tie up any loose ends, so while I don't intend writing an 8th book in the series, it's possible. Or someone else can when I'm dead.