1,000 A day

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by Geddy

Good job, man I liked it a lot. Do you have a link to your Emberwind story? I'd like to read it

thank you :)

Ask and ye shall recieve:


http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27581

[Roderick Usher]

Good work, Vod. It is important to keep yourself motivated.

I don't count words on screenplays, but we shoot for 10 pages a day when we're working, and finish a first draft in about 10-15 days. But we also take quite a bit of downtime in between gigs to rest up ad come up with new ideas.

I did a full-script dialog polish with a few changes today...it took about 6 1/2 hours. Probably 20-30 full pages of writing all-told on a 103 page script.

Did 5 pages of rewrites/added scenes on another script yesterday in about 45 minutes.

When I write short stories I finish them in one shot and they tend to be 1500-3000 words a piece.

But that's my job.

On a related note... GIALLO started shooting today, L.A. GOTHIC is coming together, we have a cool, young horror director attached to the script I rewrote today (more on that as things progress) and our latest script (non-horror) called THE TOKAREV is getting quite a bit of attention:D

[Vodstok]

Thank you :)

2 days and 20031 wordsd so far. the small daily goal is pretty comfortable, and only seems to eat up about 30-45 minutes, which means i can fit it in to my schedule.

Its fun too :)

[Doc Faustus]

I just did a three day novel. First I read someone saying 1000 and I did 1000 for a bit, then I read Stephen King's on Writing, where he recommends three thousand. I'm with King. If people are into a videogame, they'll play it for four, five hours. It will be the duration of their leisure time, but if they're trying to write something they might just spend twenty, forty minutes on it. For a while I was way off track and only writing a thousand or so once a week, but I'm back on the wagon. Three thousand's the way to go, definitely. It's about two hour's work most of the time and when it's done you've really got ten more good pages.

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by Doc Faustus

I just did a three day novel. First I read someone saying 1000 and I did 1000 for a bit, then I read Stephen King's on Writing, where he recommends three thousand. I'm with King. If people are into a videogame, they'll play it for four, five hours. It will be the duration of their leisure time, but if they're trying to write something they might just spend twenty, forty minutes on it. For a while I was way off track and only writing a thousand or so once a week, but I'm back on the wagon. Three thousand's the way to go, definitely. It's about two hour's work most of the time and when it's done you've really got ten more good pages.

Unfortunately, i dont have 2 hours a day, otherwise i would love to reach for 3000.

[Doc Faustus]

Understood. I was more thinking about how people do spend their free time when they could be writing. Of course, it's important to let yourself be loose for work, but the temptation of going out for a beer or videogames or all kinds of things so often come up and writers forget that writing is what they love to do, more than those other things. Even if writings you're job, you're doing your job because you love it.

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by Doc Faustus

Understood. I was more thinking about how people do spend their free time when they could be writing. Of course, it's important to let yourself be loose for work, but the temptation of going out for a beer or videogames or all kinds of things so often come up and writers forget that writing is what they love to do, more than those other things. Even if writings you're job, you're doing your job because you love it.

I dont drink during the week, and as luck would have it, it is way easier to open word than to fire up Bioshock or FEAR, so its just easier :)