{"id":2677,"date":"2011-10-26T07:08:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T12:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2020-01-03T23:54:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T04:54:49","slug":"nanowrimo-whats-a-realistic-time-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/nanowrimo-whats-a-realistic-time-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanowrimo. What&#8217;s a realistic time commitment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What&#8217;s a realistic time commitment?<\/h2>\n<p>To get to 50,000 words in 30 days, you have to produce an average of 1,667 words every day. No question, NaNoWriMo requires a time commitment! The question is, how much?<\/p>\n<p>I know about how fast I write for the day job, but for that I edit as I go &#8212; which is a NaNoWriMo No-No.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to get a quick reality check &#8212; I posted a question on the NaNoWriMo forums to ask veterans how much time they typically need to keep pace with that 1,667\/day output rate.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link to read peoples&#8217; answers, but here&#8217;s my takeaway:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most people should figure to set aside about 2 hours a day writing time. <em>But note the caveats below!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a huge variation in word production speed! Some of the fastest can churn out 2,000 words\/hour. The slowest do 500\/hour or less. <em>It might be a good idea to run a &#8220;test&#8221; on your own writing speed before Nov. 1 so you know about how fast you can write.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>People don&#8217;t always write at the same speed. Sometimes the words flow quickly. Other times they don&#8217;t. <em>Don&#8217;t be surprised if your writing speed is slower at times&#8211;and you might want to set aside some extra chunks of time to &#8220;catch up&#8221; afterward if you hit a slow period.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One last thing: writing time is only one piece of the time commitment. You may also need some planning\/thinking-about-the-novel time. I know I write much faster when I have a map in my head of where I&#8217;m going . . .<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m going to get up early the entire month of November in order to make sure I have extra time I&#8217;ll need to keep pace. After all, who needs sleep? ;-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s a realistic time commitment? To get to 50,000 words in 30 days, you have to produce an average of 1,667 words every day. No question, NaNoWriMo requires a time commitment! The question is, how much? I know about how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/nanowrimo-whats-a-realistic-time-commitment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,3],"tags":[310,403],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-novel-writing-month","category-writing","tag-nanowrimo","tag-national-novel-writing-month"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6459,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/6459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}