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* Barbara Cartland [http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/22/books/barbara-cartland-98-best-selling-author-who-prized-old-fashioned-romance-dies.html?pagewanted=2 averaged 23 novels a year] and could [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20069091,00.html dictate 6-9k in a 2-3 hour session].  
* Barbara Cartland [http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/22/books/barbara-cartland-98-best-selling-author-who-prized-old-fashioned-romance-dies.html?pagewanted=2 averaged 23 novels a year] and could [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20069091,00.html dictate 6-9k in a 2-3 hour session].  
* Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his most famous work, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, [http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/25/books.booksnews in three days, and again in another three days] after his wife burned the first draft.  Remember to back up your work! ;)
* Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his most famous work, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, [http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/25/books.booksnews in three days, and again in another three days] after his wife burned the first draft.  Remember to back up your work! ;)
* [[National Novel Writing Month (nonprofit)|NaNoWriMo]] [[Writers Board]] member Darynda Jones once wrote an 80k novel in seven days according to her Writers Board bio.




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Revision as of 23:47, 3 September 2015

To complete NaNoWriMo's 50,000 word goal, one has to write 1,667 words a day - a pace which many find unbelievable or undoable. However, many published authors have written a whole novel in a month or write above that quota every day.

See also List of 50,000 Word Novels.