Clarence Matthews
Dreamer
Today while browsing the internet I came across an old article by Jason Sanford written in 09 where he says that it takes him about 20 hours for a 5k word short story.
Over the last 4 days I have put probably 10 hours into writing just the first draft of a short story and then skimming through it just once for some spelling and grammatical error edits. I am looking at at least one more pass through where I personally check for holes in the story line, things that don't make sense, etc before I dare send it to some of my beta readers for their thoughts.
I expected to bang out this short story in a couple of hours while I was wasting time at work. The next thing I know it feels like I am working two jobs because I just can't stop. Does anyone else have this problem it seems to me like I am just extra slow how long do others take to write a short story around the 5k area?
If anyone wants pm me and I can provide the web address for the original article I read.
Over the last 4 days I have put probably 10 hours into writing just the first draft of a short story and then skimming through it just once for some spelling and grammatical error edits. I am looking at at least one more pass through where I personally check for holes in the story line, things that don't make sense, etc before I dare send it to some of my beta readers for their thoughts.
I expected to bang out this short story in a couple of hours while I was wasting time at work. The next thing I know it feels like I am working two jobs because I just can't stop. Does anyone else have this problem it seems to me like I am just extra slow how long do others take to write a short story around the 5k area?
If anyone wants pm me and I can provide the web address for the original article I read.