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# On writing
- URL: https://werd.io/on-writing-1/
- Published: 2023-08-07T20:54:58.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-07T20:54:58.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:21

Today was my best writing day in a while. I’m in awe of writers like [Lancali](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Lancali/207568073) who blithely post about hitting [nearly 6000 words in a day](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvfvIQItNni/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==). That is not me. That is *very far* from being me.

If I can hit a four figure word count, I consider it a pretty good writing day. I don’t do it every day. Some days, I stare at the screen and make a bit of a sad face and write 250 at best. But the upshot is that there is forward motion, and I haven’t set the whole thing on fire yet, and those two things are all I really want out of the project right now. All else being equal, I will have produced a full-length manuscript this year — a full-length story — and I can’t ask for more than that.

I don’t have an editor, or an agent, or a publisher, or a publicist, or any of those things. But those aren’t what I need right now. Those things are like drawing the logo before you’ve written the software. The main thing is to write. And that’s what I’m doing.

One day, I hope you’ll read it. But right now, it’s all for me.