How many chapters can you get through in a single day?

Whether reading or writing, how many chapters can you get through in a single day?

My Turn:

Writing: one chapter. Then there’s times when I can do one chapter and a half.

Reading: three to five to ten chapters depending on my reading mood.

What about you?

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Depends on density-I used to read whole books in one day as a child!

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What about writing?

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Usually one long one I have split into smaller pieces

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Reading? It used to be approx 10 chapters but now I’m lucky if I get through one because of my head.

Writing? Depends on the day. Sometimes half a chapter. Sometimes anywhere up to 5

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It’s more useful for me to count pages, not chapters lol. I don’t write linearly so I’m never done with a chapter in a day. I write 1-3 pages a day :skull: .

The same with reading. I read 60-100 pages, which could be a single chapter, 3 chapters, or 12 chapters depending on the book lol.

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Writing = 1 or 2

I usually try to read a chapter a day :smiley:

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Reading… Average three to four (Life shit gets in the way).

Writing… Wrote three quite large chapters in about five hours once (I was on a roll that evening), but usually one, size and content depending.

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It depends.

I could read a whole book in one sitting when I was younger, so chapters scmapters for the reading record side. Now? I give up far quicker.

Writing? Also variable. I think about 6K is what I write comfortably during the day unless I’m stalling.

For writing, it depends on wordcount, chapter length, and my motivation that day.

But, at my creative peak, I was writing like 10k words a day for roughly 3ish months (my greatest achievement LMAO). I think I could probably achieve this peak again if I really wanted to, but I set boundaries for myself now because (physically) doing that messed me up, even if it was extremely fulfilling and delightful.

Nowadays I tend to write around 5k words a day on average.

My chapters (on average) are around 3k.

So, during my peak: three chapters a day.

Average: one and a half chapters a day.

For reading, I’m a speedy reader. Daily, I tend to consume roughly 3-5 chapters a day (typically at night before bed). But if the tale is especially gripping I can finish an entire book in a day or two.

Heeeyyy :grin: I feel like I haven’t appeared in your threads in a while.

Writing: If it’s a first draft situation, I could write a chapter which is about 2500-3000 words. I could. Sometimes I do more. Like maybe a chapter and a third of a chapter or something like that. Good days, like, really good days, I could write two chapters.

Reading: Depends on the book. I once nearly finished a middle grade book in a day. A heavy book like Perdido Street Station, probably can’t take more than a couple chapters of the thing (dense worldbuilding), but it depends on what part because the latter half went pretty quickly. If I really push myself, I might be able to finish a book in a day, but that’s really pushing it and considering I have no obligations.

Yes, same!

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oh wow! That sounds intense :open_mouth: Every single day?

Yes lmao. I was unemployed at the time and coming off a really bad mental health spiral that motivated me a LOT, so I think I was in a specific headspace where I was able to achieve a level of creative/emotional intensity that allowed that. I also type roughly 90 wpm on average, which I’m sure helped.

While it was extremely cathartic, it also genuinely destroyed parts of my physical health. Like, for example, I have hyper extendable thumbs–and for some reason when I type I overextend one thumb back A LOT. Holding that tension in my thumb did some type of nerve damage, and I now have to sleep with/write with a thumb brace to prevent it from bending back. Atop that, my shoulder got really messed up because I had to extend myself a certain way, and it got so stiff/swollen that I had to physically stop myself from writing.

Overall, was an experience I wouldn’t trade for the world, but it was fs a “perfect storm” type of creative pressure cooker lol.

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