That should have been the end of it, but a week later, the group decided to do it again. We concluded, possibly incorrectly, that Borg and others like him did not do as they claimed. Others who joined in on the experiment that day fell short of that. That is the most words I ever wrote in a day and probably ever will. That work is unfinished and probably never will be. I reached 24,888 words just before midnight on a weird fiction clockwork steampunk retelling of the Bible. I did not match Flula Borg’s intensity or enthusiasm, but I did my dead level best. If I had seen the video first, I might not have tried. Borg’s claim, a few of us decided to run an experiment to see if any of us could replicate the results. He did use “very” a lot.īack in September of 2013, when we became aware of Mr. The book was “Rindle Dindle the Magic Dance Pony: A Novel I Did Write in 15 Hours Consecutive (No Spellcheck)” by Flula Borg! In a two minute YouTube video from 2011 I’ve since found, it shows the final moments of him finishing the “novel” and celebrating. It is more than feasible to get a high wordcount in a single hour or two, and 3333 words in an hour is not a Herculean task for many writers, but once you add on more hours pushing into most of the day, the likelihood of maintaining those numbers drops hour by hour, even excluding quality and accounting for variations in writing speed throughout the day. That works out to roughly 3333 words an hour and 55 words a minute. He claimed it was completed in 15 hours of actual writing.
The more hours you take away, the more perilous the math gets. Others have made similar claims since.Ī few of us were quite dubious of this claim. He said he’d stopped for meals, picked up his daughter from school, I believe, and took a couple breaks. He also claimed he had not written straight through all day. In a blog about it, he gave details about the story, how he wrote, how he had outlined in advance, and how it turned out. Years ago, an author who I did not know personally and have not heard from since, claimed on Twitter he had written all 50,000 words of his NaNoWriMo novel in a single day. The Origins of the 24 Hour Writing Challenge This was not, however, the first 24 hour writing challenge I had attempted. Gamers go for hours and the Twitch audience expects that. I had not done anything longer than a few hours at a time on stream before. Those videos are over on my Captain Three Kidneys YouTube channel. Twenty streams over twenty days got me to 50,000 words. The previous November I had done all my NaNoWriMo writing live on stream. I have been streaming on Twitch for a while: writing short stories live, doing interviews with other authors, discussing articles on writing from myself and others, doing live readings and editing stories live, and more. I was going to see how many short stories I could write before midnight that night, all live in front of whoever wanted to watch for as long as they wanted to watch. That was my only goal that day, the only thing on my list of things to do. I also want to finish editing another book so I can get it ready to publish early next week.On January 15, 2021, I turned on the livestream for my Twitch channel as soon as I woke up and I started writing. Tomorrow I will write over 1000 new words. I’ll be glad to reach the end of this challenge and will probably switch to weekly updates. I don’t know why this is but pretty sure I didn’t delete them. My last couple of Medium posts have disappeared.
The book switched to “publishing” this morning and was live by early afternoon. After briefly panicking I watched a Youtube video of someone who had also experienced this and they said to sit tight. I published a book yesterday which for some reason went from “in review” to “draft” status. Finishing the editing today means I have a cover and blurb to write tomorrow and can publish a new book. I’m reasonably happy with that, mainly because I feel like I can do more. I wrote 1283 words today and edited 4893 words.
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