Just out of curiosity: what is the highest word count you’ve ever achieved in a single day? If you’ve never participated in NaNo but you still track your daily word count, I’m also interested in your answer.
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EDIT: If you have friends with higher word counts per day than you, I want to hear about them as well. :)
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verbal-ironyyy answered:
About 7,000 or 8,000, I would estimate.
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thelondonmag answered:
It wasn’t in NaNo, but at one point I had like 5,000 words in a day. But that was back at school during the summer. Aim for a few thousand.
hercreativefiles answered:
My highest was probably just over 2K back in 2010, though outside of NaNo and more recently I’ve written well over 4K in a day
merrymints answered:
20,000
sarahkmulligan answered:
I think around 6k or something. That totally wasn’t a consistent thing. I was VERY excited about a certain scene.
amandakthompson answered:
I believe my highest word count in a day was about 20K. Prepared outlines work miracles.
saeculasaeculorum answered:
roughly 7k
spasticcharge answered:
There was one day my roomie and I wrote fic together for twelve hours straight. We got at least 10-15,000 words, if not more.
sparkingstorms answered:
I am fairly certain that my friend wrote 5000 some words one day, it was a weekend. But I could be wrong about that, might have been 3000.
gethinfiltrator answered:
It was over 10,000, actually. I don’t know why or how I wrote that much, but I just kept on writing!
siuilaruinofthegale answered:
Personally, my highest word count is ~5500-6000, I can’t remember exactly.
thetimecametoblossom answered:
About 3,500, I think.
forwardfailing answered:
Mine was the first day of Nano, the one year I beat it. 5,317 words.
she-is-this-writer answered:
Ah, I’ve done terribly for my past 2 nanos. I reached about 6,000 in one day, but gave up altogether after 11,000. :3
triceratopper answered:
Last year, I fell behind early on so I caught up by writing more than 7000 words a day for a few days. It was hard!
ghostofthewind said:
I should have added I was dead tired after too.
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ghostofthewind answered:
I haven’t done NANo I may this year. My word count was 4000 also edited those as well.
selahexanimo answered:
I once reached 11,000 in a mad dash for the finish line.
foolishicarus answered:
About 8k, but one of my friends hit about 20k once.
yephire answered:
Only around 5000, sadly. But I know people that archieved twice of that…
beatwritersbane answered:
3678
bookishdea answered:
um, 10,000? Something like that.
jynweythekylow answered:
I once wrote 6,000 words once, but my story was really bad so I stopped participating. :/ I’m thinking about going this year though.
justanorthernlight answered:
I got 30k in 36 hours once.
nickandros answered:
i am terrible with nano but i got about 4,000 words done one day (and then dropped out whoops)
smileslikeparentheses answered:
About 8000, but they were horrible words and I only did that many because I was really behind.
fakesurprise answered:
13K at best.
radiantpeace answered:
around 1750 word count per day, I try to hit. Sad, I know.
bashaniwinter answered:
Nowhere near these guys, haha, I think maybe it was around 5k
kylasedai said:
Last year I managed to do about 11k from 11pm to noon the next day.
saphiremomo answered:
I think I did 7k in one day, once. It was mostly because I had slacked the entire week and then got inspired, so I just wrote for a while.
elainemorisi answered:
5.8K
duncanalonso answered:
not participating in NaNoWriMo, but I believe I logged 10k across various projects in a day, possibly a bit more.
valswei answered:
5000
devabbi answered:
I reached 7.5k words in one day (it was a day off…), and a friend of mine got to 12. I don’t think he slept that day though.
atalli answered:
I got… ~10k this one day. XD Had to make up for a couple of missed days that day, and I was on a roll.
wallowings answered:
about 7000 for one day, thanks to coffee haha
wordwerks answered:
Highest I ever got was about 12,500 in a day - it was an all night write-in . :)
koryos answered:
8,000
superiorescalator answered:
I think 3000-4000? It was a while ago, but I really tried hard during the last days.
onset-of-imagination answered:
around 2,000 words
requiemash answered:
My record is 10,000-ish. But keep in mind that was after an insanely productive 18 hour writing session, after which I went briefly insane.
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crankyashley said:
Last year I fell behind, but got caught up one weekend when I did about 5k. Then fell behind again lol. Outside of NaNo the most I’ve done in a day is 8k.
smeargled answered:
Never done NaNo, but my PB is 7450 in a day. One of my friends managed 11000+ in a single day, though.
gladosknightandthepips answered:
I want to say somewhere around 5k?
castielinablanket answered:
8,000
kingedmundsroyalmurder answered:
mine is just under 18k. Still trying to make it to 20.
