Aha!... Thanks to Kath I have the total word count target doovey thing working now...

Want to hit the 20K mark by the end of the month. That's my plan, you see... 20,000 words a month. That way the 1st draft of The Undivided will be finished 3 months before the final MS is due.

That's not writing too fast is it? Saw a 2003 blog comment the other day (hey... the Google thing ain't perfect:) that said "Fallon has produced 2 books a year for the past couple of years. They must be utter crap. How can any writer produce quality work when they're writing at that sort of pace?" Mind you, they hadn't read a single word, basing their entire opinion on the release schedule of two unrelated publishers, publishing two unrelated series at the same time.

I was tempted to go back and tell them it was the publishing schedule, not my writing, they had an issue with, but hey... responding to a post put up in 2003? Not even I'm that neurotic...LOL

Still, it's an interesting point. I wonder how many other readers out there diss an author without reading their work because the author seems to be churning them out like a production-line hack?

I've written 2 books in a year and it nearly made my brain explode. These days it's nice to have the luxury of some time (and the funds) to write, put it down for a while, go back and rewrite, and then rewrite again, and know you're sending in the best draft possible, not the best draft you can produce in the time permitted.

Smartest thing I ever did was ask for a 14 month deadline on The Undivided:)

As a dedicated fan I don't believe you can write TOO fast; I personally wish you would write faster and then I'd have so much more to read. Oh well, I'll have to amuse myself with re-reading what you have already written - and be thankful that they can be read more than once; twice; .... etc

I totally agree with Charlie
But different people have different speeds of writing. When ever I write sometimes I have complete splurges and write a couple of thousand words in a day, sometimes I do nothing for weeks! But then again I'm not full time writing and still have to go to school :(
You have to go with what's right with you
And that critic should have his hands cut off - because i think your books are fantastic!

no, definitely not too fast *g*

As to the 2003 blog, I don't believe in saying published writing is crap, unless I have you know, actually read it, and found that to me it was crap. Even then I usually get all noble and feel obliged to point out that the work is actually published, so other people obviously like it. *sighs* I'm sure this much sweet reasoning is bad for one.

It's not an invalid point however. The red flag for me is when an author who traditionally is a 1 per year or longer producer suddenly has 4 titles on list in the same year. Even though its possible they had a backlog of old work, even just getting books edited and re-written in that period of time seems problematic. More often than not, my first thought is ghost writer.

You go, Jenny. Is it just me or is anyone else a bit weirded out by the strange little creature representing a writer.

Nice legs!

I wrote 222,900 in four and a half months, writing about 4 days/week, about 3000 per day. Took me, at the shortest, 2 hours on one occasion, and up to 4 hours/day on other occasion. Depending of course on my mood and what that chapter was about.

Currently editing it and writing another (diff world).

Sk.

Astonishing article . Will definitely copy it to my blog.Thanks