>>50977573Rough drafts are easy,
you just zoom through them and don't look back. Three to five pages a day for rough drafts (for me). Takes maybe an hour or two, it's really hard to judge.
I try to aim high every day, because I have days where I don't do any work and are basically 0 page days.
First drafts are where the real bloodletting begins. It can be faster in parts when you are touching up dialogue here and there, but also slower if you have parts that need to be thrown away and done again. Mostly, it's safe to assume that it's 6-10 pages edited per 1 to 2 hours.
Personally, I like to think in terms of pages because I spend time procrastinating and dragging my feet at all stages of the process. 3 hours can be a useless measurement if you only output 1 page. I care for results, which is why rather than let myself get away with such indiscretions, I force a page count each day. Somedays I know I'm not going to write so I push those day's workloads to other days.
