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u/IHaveThatPower · 6 pointsr/writing

I (typically) write in sessions ranging from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. In that window, I put down between 800 and 2400 words. The initial 500 or so are always slower than the rest.

At that pace, and using your six sessions per week, it would take between 7 and 21 weeks to write a 100,000 word novel. That seems like a perfectly reasonable pace to me.

Perhaps the issue is one of organization, rather than time?

u/WillWeisser · 5 pointsr/writing

Have not read Chris Fox but I did read Rachel Aaron's e-book and I thought it was good.

https://www.amazon.com/2k-10k-Writing-Faster-Better-ebook/dp/B009NKXAWS

For 99 cents it's certainly not going to bankrupt you. However if you're really cheap you should know it's basically an expanded version of the article she wrote here:

http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-i-went-from-writing-2000-words-day.html

u/nhaines · 4 pointsr/writing

2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love is a great ebook, for a dollar, that walks you through how to prepare for writing, and talks about why each step helps. It has some great advice that will help you be confident by the time you sit down to write.

If $0.99 is too rich for you (or you're skeptical), you can read the author's blog post, which was later adapted into the above ebook. It's shorter and doesn't go into as much detail but still gives the core advice from the book.

u/parryforte · 3 pointsr/fantasywriters

>Has anyone used this method before?

Kinda sorta, I write dialogue-heavy on the first pass with very minimal descriptions, then ink that shit in on the second pass. It can help knowing what the scene looks like for dialogue (pro tips can be found in Aaron's 2K to 10K book) and related actions, but a dialogue-rich approach helps your characters step from the page.

Also, you avoid painful exposition :)

If you can track down a copy, Enough Is Too Much Already is a book written entirely in dialogue, and it's superb. I lent my copy out, never to be seen again, so don't make that mistake.

u/mstewstew · 3 pointsr/writing

Oh man, that's tough. I was lucky during my first book. I've always been in writing (as a journalist) and have thought about writing a novel for a very long time. That meant I had a lot of ideas stored up, and writing this first book was like opening the floodgates. Admittedly, I took it very slow, writing it out over a year or so.

During that time, I read From 2k to 10k a Day by Rachel Aaron. She has a great system for writing faster. She makes a strong case for plotting, and has totally converted me. I think that's what has kept me from suffering from writers' block. If ever I doubt where I'm going, I just go back to the outline and reassess what I'm doing. The added benefit to that is, I always know where I'm going, giving me time to focus more on prose, which has helped my writing tremendously.

u/ah5678 · 3 pointsr/eroticauthors

"Is there a particular scene or moment in the story that is giving you trouble?"

This. Nine times out of ten this is my problem. There's not enough conflict or I'm trying to force a character deviation or my idea for the scene doesn't fit the trope or something. (And when it happens, 90% of those instances can be attributed to not enough conflict. My own personal cross to bear, maybe.) I doubt it's a personal failing on your part, OP. You already knocked out 50K... that's no small amount of work.

Rachel Aaron Bach's 2K to 10K helped me learn to step back and look at a scene if I was having a hard time. You already got suggestions for Cold Turkey Writer and I saw StayFocusd mentionded at some point -- both of those work for me as well.

Good luck with the book!.

u/kindarusty · 3 pointsr/eroticauthors

I followed some of the suggestions in Rachel Aaron's 2k to 10k, to boost my output.

In the very beginning of a story, I use very rough outlines, kinda similar to the method discussed in James Lofquist's Tell, Don't Show!

Basically, I just throw it all on the page (I mean even the shittiest idea) and come back to edit it later. Saw a thing somewhere on reddit yesterday that said "You can edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page", and that's pretty much been my philosophy since the start.

I have never taken a class, save for the basics that are required for any degree in college. I find workshops (in my area, anyway) to be full of people who just want to critique the shit out of your stuff, but who aren't actually pulling in any money from their writing. I read a lot, though, and I think that's pretty key to being able to internalize (and then naturally emulate) style, plot patterns, etc.

As for the distractions, I will usually put on a headset and crank up some kind of white noise (I have a whole host of websites that I visit, but a favorite is rainymood.com). My boyfriend knows that this is a source of income for us, and gives me the free time that I require -- if you are not in a similar situation, you may have to be firm about setting your boundaries, or just lock yourself away for a bit each day.

If I'm really not into it that day, I'll read instead. Sometimes I just need a break from the story.

u/bethrevis · 2 pointsr/writing

I recommend reading Rachel Aaron's book, 2000 TO 10000. It's basically a instruction manual for how she become more disciplined in writing. I've gotten some great ideas from it.

http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-i-went-from-writing-2000-words-day.html

And the buy link--it's $1 right now:

http://www.amazon.com/2k-10k-Writing-Faster-ebook/dp/B009NKXAWS/ref=la_B004FRLQXE_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1349882755&sr=1-9

u/vivianhey · 2 pointsr/eroticauthors

I read a lot - books, short stories, graphic novels, screenplays, plays. Not only do you learn from studying how other writers construct their work, but by studying different mediums you tend to strengthen specific writing muscles. For example, when studying screenplays you learn how to craft better dialogue. When studying graphic novels you become better aware of how to utilize your setting.

A trick I stole from college is mimicking the style of a writer, or book, you admire (I actually do this after every good book I read). You'll inevitably pick up at least one cool thing you can use in your own writing, and it's a great way to hone your own style.

I recently bought this book on Amazon, which gives tips on how to write faster. It's only .99 and, personally, I think it's aimed towards amateur writers but the one thing I got out of it was planning before you write. It sounds like a no-brainer but I used to hate outlining. But the way she describes it, it's more thorough than traditional outlining and I've been able to write 10,000 words in one sitting without becoming frustrated.

u/Forest_Green_ · 2 pointsr/Fantasy

Rachel Aaron/Rachel Bach. She writes [several thousand words] (https://www.amazon.com/2k-10k-Writing-Faster-Better-ebook/dp/B009NKXAWS) per day and, since 2010, has written thirteen novels and other various works.

u/sea_egg · 2 pointsr/nanowrimo
u/SilentNightingale · 2 pointsr/writing

I've used a couple of different methods, including the one Rachel Aaron describes in 2K to 10K, but I've found the most success using the Snowflake Method.(Here's the Amazon link if you decide to purchase the book.)

To me, this is a very organic and easy-to-follow method. With each step (e.g., Step 5, which requires you to delve into a character's backstory and role), I find myself filling previously missed plot holes or discovering the real reason for a character's actions. For example while working on Step 8 the other night (creating a scene list), I suddenly found myself adding six new chapters (about 18 proactive and reactive scenes) that completely solved a gap in my antagonist's timeline. When I realized that something didn't quite work, it was much easier to delete one weak sentence than throw away a 1,500-word scene that didn't add anything.

The best way I can think of to summarize this method is that you will start with a very basic idea and then extrapolate it in multiple steps. As you progress, ideas will ebb and flow. Small changes during this process save so much time. You'll find that after you finish the steps, the writing is easy. I know that when I'm done with the steps and finally begin to write, the skeleton and muscle are already there; all I have left to add is the skin and maybe one or two tattoos.

In any case, I would certainly recommend taking a look. One of the women in my writing group just switched to the Snowflake Method after becoming stuck in the middle of her third novel (part of a fantasy series that has had good sales on Amazon). She sent me an e-mail the other night telling me that she was now a believer, having finally resolved the issues that had resulted in a stagnant project.

Hope it helps!

u/AubreyWatt · 2 pointsr/JobFair

I go to the coffeeshop and write 2000 words every day in the morning, that's my minimum. I've broken 10k in a day before, but it's usually hard for me to get through the 5k mark. Hopefully when I drop my full time job (later this year) I'll be able to work my way up.

When I first started writing, I could only do like 200-300 words an hour. Now I'm up to more like 1000-1500. Practice, practice, practice.

Also, the 2k to 10k thing helped me, like, a LOT: http://www.amazon.com/2k-10k-Writing-Faster-Better-ebook/dp/B009NKXAWS

u/katarh · 2 pointsr/dataisbeautiful

This is the method that many fiction writers use to keep themselves going. See a nifty little book called 2K to 10K.

Pretty sure she not only tracked how many words per date, but also did an hourly breakdown, and discovered that she wrote as much in her two or three most productive hours as she did in the other five or six. Cut her workday in half when she figured that out.

u/icyrae · 1 pointr/writing

I generally write, then map, then write, then re-map, repeat. (I also have a giant file of ideas and snippets.)

If you're interested in different types of plotting/mapping, check out Dan Wells' YouTube videos on the 7 point plot structure, Rachel Aaron's book 2k to 10k, and everything the Writing Excuses podcast has under their plot tag.

Edit: added links.

u/Karl-Friedrich_Lenz · 1 pointr/writing

That obviously depends on the day. If I have nothing else to do I would expect 5K at least. If I'm busy I might not get anything done.

Anybody interested in writing faster might benefit from reading Rachel Aaron's 2K to 10K at $1 for the Kindle edition.

Main lessons from that: Take a couple of minutes before starting to write a short outline, be really excited and interested in the scene you want to write (if something bores you, it will bore readers as well), keep records of your progress.

u/MichaelJSullivan · 1 pointr/writing

With the exception of my first two books (which each were written over sequential one month periods), my writing output has pretty much been even across 13 year - right around 1,500 - 2,000 words a day. The reason those first two books came out so quickly is the story had been building for her a decade, and when I decided to write it, the damn broke and I barely ate or slipped while I purged them from my brain.

That pace is more than good for most writers (and also the most common word count of those who write daily. Now that said, Rachel Aaron, is a writer who is quite talented and she wrote a book called 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love. I've not read it because I have no desire to increase my writing to that pace, but, knowing her, I think there is probably some good stuff in there.

u/ebook-octopus · 1 pointr/UnlimitedBestOF

This is the first book I've read by Rachel Aaron, but as it happens I have read her writing help book (2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love - also available on Kindle Unlimited) and quite liked her style. In fact I wonder now why I didn't pick up any of her other books at the time ...

Anyway! This book is a solid urban fantasy story, low on the romance and high on the morbid humor. Although it is the first in a series, it does not end on a cliffhanger.

u/MichaelCoorlim · 1 pointr/fantasywriters

I don't bother much with KDP select anymore, as the changes in Amazon's affiliate program has made free giveaways less appealing to book bloggers; their affiliate codes don't bring in the cash anymore.

Unfortunately even if you're not in it for the money a steady production schedule is the only way to keep visible. Amazon heavily weights its search results towards new releases. If it takes you a year to publish another book, well, by the time that year has past your first book has been hidden in search obscurity for 10 months.

There are only really two things I can suggest.

  1. Be prolific. I strongly suggest the book 2k to 10k; it's about doubled my productivity and even if you can't do everything the author suggests, it might have a tip or two that helps you.

  2. Write quality content. Someone once said that every writer has a million words of trash to put out before they can write a single word of gold, so keep writing. Write every day, even if it's just a thousand words. Practice makes perfect, right?

    Anyway, good luck.
u/byronsadik · 1 pointr/writing

Thanks to this nifty book I've been doing a daily writing log where I chart my word count, time spent writing, words per hour, etc. It's helped me tremendously in making me more productive and keeping me on track. I find that I'm most productive either early in the morning or really late at night.

u/terrifiedsleeptwitch · 0 pointsr/fantasywriters

Buy Rachel Aaron's book of writing advice. It is actually very helpful.

Also check out the snowflake method.

See what other famous, prolific writers do. Try a bit. See what you do best with.

If something gives you a headache, either it's not for you, or you're doing it wrong.

Up to you to figure that one out.

Rinse, repeat. :)