I’ve been writing and learning my craft for more years than I care to remember.  When I first entered the writing arena, I listened intently when someone talked about how they went about writing their book.  I wanted the “secret”  - you know, the easy way to write a book.  Ha!

One of the most important things I learned was that most writers measure their work output by pages written per day.  Not by how much time they spend doing the deed.  So, over the years I’ve listened to a number of published authors speaking about how many pages need to be written each day to be a successful author.  

I’ve taken hope from the authors who point out that if I only write one page a day, at the end of a year I’ll have a finished book.  I’ve been inspired by the author who disclosed that if I wrote five pages a day that in a year’s time I would have written two single-title, and two category books.  And then there was the author who shook up my world by divulging that I needed to write twenty pages a day to be successful in this business.  Yikes!  

So, my question to you today is:  How many pages do YOU write a day?  Are you successful with your daily output?  Do you have a day job, and if so, how do you fit in your writing time?