During the BBC’s Big Read series, Phil Jupitus commented on the fact that Winnie the Pooh is only 15,000 words long. I found on Leon Fletcher’s page, “How Long”, that Hemingway wrote 2,000 words a day, and Robinson Jeffers just 14. I’m comforted by the knowledge that Flaubert wrote Madam Bovary in 250 words daily.
That is one of my goals for this site – to begin the discipline of writing 250 words (on any subject) per day, at least 4 days a week. I have no pretensions that any book I eventually write will have the same content as this blog, but if at least I’m in the habit of writing, then that surely will be one less hurdle on the road to publication. Am rather sobered in reading Gerry McGovern’s statistic that Printed content represents 0.003 percent of all content published annually in the world, but I am striving to equal AA Milne’s word length by the end of the year.
