Got a writing session in this evening as well, taking today's writing time up to 5 hours. Outlined two new scenes and added a mere 4K to the novel.

Stats are:

• Session average : 800 words per hour.
• Overall average: 645 words per hour.

The second stat includes 3 hours spent creating the writing outline, plus 0.5 spent on setting up Scrivener. Knock those off and you get a drafting time of 12 hours, yielding:

• Overall drafting average: 833 words per hour

What's imponderable is how much the non-writing time contributes to this. Am I really a burst worker, doomed to a ceiling of 4K per day regardless? And can I break through that 0.8K ph ceiling?

I sit down on a turmoil free uninjured day and write for 7 hours, will that five me 7 x 8 = 5.6K a day?

What would a 5-day week be like? Could I really produce 28K words a week? Including outlining time, that would give me a draft 100K adult novel in a mere 4 weeks.

It's a lovely thought. The reality is that those drafting weeks would be fed by weeks musing, brainstorming, reading genre and non-fiction, researching and sketching. And then there's the second draft.

What a terrible fate, I can feel the angst coming on.

Now if only my agent could rustle up some contracts...