I've honestly never timed myself. I do know I've done 10k+ in one long marathon session, but I really never kept track. That was up early one morning, no work, nothing going on the next day guaranteed (what I call a "good" day). it involved 2 or 3 pots of coffee, and it was an all day and into the evening sort of affair.
I know one *insane* session, produced an entire "section". which was tens of thousands of words. But, the editing time? really long later on down the line. That took something like 36 to 48 *straight* hours. Wired like a flying insect caught in a bug zapper. we're talking pots of coffee left and right. Energy drinks. Cigarettes like a chimney, and yeah, a few shall we say "hand rolled" cigarettes if you catch my drift and I think you do. we're talking novella length here. But "rough" was not even beginning to cover it.
but in those days, my rough draft was a LOT rougher. I was just banging away on the keyboard. No f*cks given for misspelt words, comma, comma, comma, rolling fast. editing was a lot slower in those days. That first reading pass or two, was hell. moving/deleting paragraphs. Mentioning things that hadn't been "discovered" yet, etc.
I've since learned to slow down a little. Fix every spelling error I notice that little squiggly red line. Not just comma,comma, comma.
I now give a quick little read/edit to every paragraph or two, as I rough draft it. It greatly cuts down on number of editing passes required.
writing+editing time = total time to produce the rough draft.
if you increase one, you decrease the other.
Its an almost perfect inverse relationship, zero sum game.
since my last project, I started watching every paragraph or two as I write them.
when I finish a chapter? I immediately read it and do some proofing-editing, followed by a second read through.
If I get 5k of a better quality chapter that requires a lot less proofing and editing later on, I think that's better.
I will say this, though.
one writing project, is outperforming all the others by a wide margin.
and yes, it was that one that had those insane long marathon sessions.
a BEAR to edit, but...
something about banging away in the heat of the moment, striking while the iron is hot.
and I'm dyslexic, which makes the reading and writing process slower for me. Sigh.
