136. I hit it in eleven days, is that acceptable? ;) (Well - I finished it on day eleven with 53k, but I hit 50k itself on day ten.)
I, uh, can't vouch for the quality of my work *laughs* Although it isn't horrendous, and it's certainly better than the month-long one I wrote in 2006. I DEFINITELY didn't cheat - I wrote my first word at precisely midnight on Saturday the 1st of November (local time), and I DEFINITELY wouldn't write just... gibberish. Who the hell does that, anyway? :( It's kinda depressing - there are NO PRIZES, GUYS, IT'S A PERSONAL CHALLENGE.
...Anyway. I did actually have a reason to try and finish mine early - I have a ton of exams to study for and assessments to do this month, (I'm actually writing this in a break from my chemistry report) so if I get it done early, then I can focus on academics. (Plus, taking the entire first weekend off, getting 15,000 in the first day, which took about... ten hours? I knew exactly what I wanted to write and type FAST, though! Then 5,000 the next day - that gives you a substantial boost.)
But yeah. It is possible to write fast without writing, well, gibberish. And there were a few days where I only hit 2k and had to make it up on other days with 5k or 8k or something. It only takes a few hours - I hit my first thousand words in the first half hour.
...Anyway. People who hit 250,000 in a week, THEY'RE the ones who make me go o.O (Fifty thousand in ten days? Totally doable, it just averages out to 5k a day, or three or four hours of writing. 250,000 in a week? That's 35k a day!)
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I, uh, can't vouch for the quality of my work *laughs* Although it isn't horrendous, and it's certainly better than the month-long one I wrote in 2006. I DEFINITELY didn't cheat - I wrote my first word at precisely midnight on Saturday the 1st of November (local time), and I DEFINITELY wouldn't write just... gibberish. Who the hell does that, anyway? :( It's kinda depressing - there are NO PRIZES, GUYS, IT'S A PERSONAL CHALLENGE.
...Anyway. I did actually have a reason to try and finish mine early - I have a ton of exams to study for and assessments to do this month, (I'm actually writing this in a break from my chemistry report) so if I get it done early, then I can focus on academics. (Plus, taking the entire first weekend off, getting 15,000 in the first day, which took about... ten hours? I knew exactly what I wanted to write and type FAST, though! Then 5,000 the next day - that gives you a substantial boost.)
But yeah. It is possible to write fast without writing, well, gibberish. And there were a few days where I only hit 2k and had to make it up on other days with 5k or 8k or something. It only takes a few hours - I hit my first thousand words in the first half hour.
...Anyway. People who hit 250,000 in a week, THEY'RE the ones who make me go o.O (Fifty thousand in ten days? Totally doable, it just averages out to 5k a day, or three or four hours of writing. 250,000 in a week? That's 35k a day!)