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Thread #64131   Message #1576615
Posted By: Amos
05-Oct-05 - 01:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: NanoWriMo - Anyone up for it?
Subject: RE: BS: NanoWriMo - Anyone up for it?
Fifty thousand words is only roughly 100 pages. A real short novel. That's single spaced at a rule-of-thumb of 500/page. Double spaced, 200 pages at 250/page = 50,000. If you are well-oiled a page in four minutes is reasonable, but say an average of ten minutes even -- that would be 2000 minutes or 33.3 hours of typing. If you get in three hours a day, you have 90 hours available in November. DOesn't seem too hard. But that doesn't mean I am going to add it to my schedule! I have rocks to mortar.

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