It doesn’t matter how much you write per day so long as you write. Writing is a marathon, not a sprint. It is not something you do once and never do again. It is something you do consistently throughout your life, should you call yourself a writer.
There will be times where you don’t write anything and life’s other obligations get in the way. Regardless, writing is that one thing you always get back to at some point, and, most times it feels like a slog.
It is difficult to get in the zone when writing as everything else in the world is infinitely more interesting and addictive, diverting your attention from the thing that matters to things that don’t.
It doesn’t matter if you write ten pages or ten sentences or ten words, so long as you write something down each day. Your best may look like a whooping 5,000 words in one day and your worst might look like 50 words in one day.
It doesn’t matter. In both cases you wrote something down. . .
So, don’t think of writing as some metric you need to hit. An arbitrary word count you are beholden to. Writing is a fluid profession that is predicated on creativity meaning it is not the words you write but the essence they contain.
Fifty words can tell a beautiful stories and a thousand words can be worthless. It all depends on the essence those words, the feelings, the emotions, the connotation.
So, don’t worry about how much you write per day so long as you write at least once every day.
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