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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/41045
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It kind of depends on the quality of your writing. Because if you pump out 365,000 words a year, but they aren't high quality words, then it ultimately doesn't get you closer to publishing (if that is your goal; I'm assuming it is since this site is aimed at professionals). The good news is is that the longer you write, the better you will get; and 1000 words a day is a good stretch; but, I've found that with that word goal target I don't quite get to my best. My actual goal with a 50 hour a week job is 1500, but I usually only hit 700-800. My best writing days see 2-3k words. Otherwise I don't get very deep.

[It's generally good advice, as contrary as this may sound, to favor quantity over quality if you're trying get better.](https://excellentjourney.net/2015/03/04/art-fear-the-ceramics-class-and-quantity-before-quality/)

> The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
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> His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot – albeit a perfect one – to get an “A”.
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> Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.

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