700 Words a Day

I have been exhausted lately, working on end of year school stuff. We've been rolling in around 8 or 9 pm every night, and I can barely keep my eyes open long enough to read a few pages, much less get any writing done. After work the other day, however, I wrote 700 words in one hour (mainly dialogue between two main characters). Looking back over it, it's not perfect, but it's not bad either.

I was reminded about comments attributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald about his contemporary and fellow ex patriot, Earnest Hemingway. Even when he drank heavily, Hemingway could and would always write a few pages a day. Fitzgerald couldn't hold his liquor that well and, therefore, hated him for it.

If I could actually stick to 700 words a day, I would have a complete novel in 100 days. That's three novels per year, working only one hour per day.