Sometimes it can be a challenge to write for 10 minutes every day. What do you write about?

If you’re writing a book, you obviously have a clear assignment everyday. An average page has 250-300 words. Can you write one page in 10 minutes? In the article, Word Count for Novels and Children’s Books, Writer’s Digest editor Chuck Sambuchino advises that 80,000 to 89,999 is an acceptable word count for a novel (if you are not J.K. Rowling.)  I did the math – if you write 250 words every day, you will write 80,000 words – a novel – in just 320 days!

A member of our writers group, Ellen Gillette, wrote a poem every day for 1,000 days. You can read her body of work at http://www.ellenpoems.blogspot.com/. I love reading something – like Ellen’s poetry – that brings on feelings.

Me – not writing a novel, poetry, short story or thesis. Just writing ’cause I like to.