At 7/4/09 04:18 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote:
Hey Slash, how do find the energy to write well over 16 thousand words in Sinners Arc 2 and not end up with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? I mean really, I can write 1-3 thousand words if an assignment calls for it, but most of the time it's gonna be around 1 thousand. I'm trying to increase the length of my stories and knowing that the average word is roughly 4-6 characters in length and having 32,768 characters per post, that equates to about 5461.3-8192 words per post.
Funny note, it's been about four years since I've written anything longer than a shopping list on paper, lol. I've been typing so much that normal handwriting exhausts my hand...plus my penmanship is even more horrid than it was back in my scribble-days, heh.
Word count has never been a problem for me...back in high school I'd turn out the standard 1500 word papers the night (or morning) before they were due, and I even finished my 4000 word extended essay the weekend before it had to be finished. When I get into the zone, and I'm writing about something I give a shit about, the words just fly by.