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[desperance]

And that, laz'n'gemmun, is five hundred pages.

And I think I've found a way to get to the end a little sooner, just by switching point of view earlier than I was expecting to. Watching from a distance, you don't get to see half as much; which means I don't have to describe it. Yay.

But it has to be said, I'm not impressed by my death-marchingness. Time was, I'd have been good at this; but time isn't, and I'm not. So far, I've hardly written more than I would have done anyway. My body's not helping - I'm chilly and wheezy and my back hurts - but these are thin excuses. What I'm thinking, maybe as well as having become (shock, horror!) a morning writer, maybe I've become a steady-as-she-goes writer too, and I don't have a sprint finish any more?

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Re: Increased productivity through lateral thinking

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Is true. Standard US format, indeed, does use a bigger font - 12pt Courier gets about 250 words to a page, where I get 320-odd. I used to get more, and it really was about increased productivity; with a set daily target of five pages, use a smaller font and you do get more words. So I used ten-point for a long time, before somebody gently hinted this was unfair on editors' eyesight. My current position is a compromise: 11pt Bitstream Charter. I like it, both onscreen and on the page. And three pages gets me a thousand words, more or less, and I can do three pages before lunch, most days. After that, everything's a bonus.