June 9, 2010
300 words
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I try to stick to a writing quota of about 300 words a day.
Eric Proulx liked that idea. 300 words is not too much, not too little etc. It’s a manageable size, if you’ve got other things going on… but still enough to build up a decent body of work over time.
So what did he do? He set up a little writing club called “300 Words”.
As if I needed another project in my life.But this one is designed to make me — and you — better at other projects. It’s called “300 Words,” and the idea is to put a little peer pressure on writers to be accountable for doing what they should be doing every day. Which is write.
I get a little bit of credit for it (I drew the cartoon, woo hoo!), but really, it’s his baby.
If you’re a writer who could use a little bit of motivation and/or peer pressure to kick your output up a notch or two, I hope you will check it out, Thanks.
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This seems similar to the website 750words.com. Have you heard of or used that one?
Pretty good idea to write 300 words. The longer a post is, the less time per word a reader spends. You might enjoy this article here: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/percent-text-read.html
Scriptwriter have been saying something similar for years. Do a page a day. A film script is 90 pages. A page a day means you have a feature script first draft in 3 months, for little daily effort.