Here's an interesting question for all you writers?

Question

Assuming you can progress--given time, effort, patience, and dedication--how many pages can you write for any one of your books? (Think of this as an plateau exercise.)

How far can you take your imagination?

Answer 1

Well given everything you just said, patience, time, dedication, anyone could write forever. Some of us dont have the patience though of say Henry Darger, who wrote 15,000+ pages.

Answer 2

My published novel has 554 pages which were required to tell the story ("Atlantis: Precious Stone"). The sequel which I am currently writing will most likely have a similar number since I am employing the format which I used for the original. However, the sequel is an entirely different view of Atlantis, one which has no template in history or literature, so I feel that I must be careful not to write too many words simply for the sake of my love for writing. I hope to write a compelling tale which readers might find intriguing. I am more into quality than quantity in my writing...

Answer 3

That would depend on the day, wouldn't it. Even with all the things you mention, some days are just harder than others. I might possess all those things and still feel like I'm beating my brains out. I might have all those things and write until the sun comes up and don't want to quit even though my head is bouncing on the table from exhaustion.

And imagination, well, that's a different thing altogether. How do you measure it? Is there such thing as a limit to one's imagination?

Answer 4

Authors don;t think in terms of pages - they think in terms of words. The industry standard is 250 words per page. When I am writing I never think of how much I can write, I just think about how much I need to tell the story. Padding is never good. It just gives editors more work. Just tell your story as simply as possibly, avoid the superfluous adverbs and adjectives and focus on your characters and your plot. When you get to the end, you are done - it may be a short story or it may be a 140 thousand word novel. It doesn't matter as long as it tells the story you intended to tell. Pax -C.

Answer 5

My first book was 688 pages long.... The sequel's 487 and the last is roughly 250 pages right now, but I'm not remotely finished with it yet.

Answer 6

I don't take my imagination anywhere. It takes me, and I stop when it is done. I write until the story is told--not in pages, words or any other measurement. I write until the words "The End" don't seem out of place.

Answer 7

What a wonderfully vague question. Interesting though. Good luck with that.