I’ll check when I’m back on my own laptop at home. @Briar_Rose, yeah, that’s now slowed me down twice… once in 2011, once this May (and counting). 
@Briar_Rose Yeah, thirty minutes because of work and other things. Still I think it’s okay no matter how long it takes to finish a game as long as you’re not pressured to write things that don’t interest you at all.
@Lucid Nice to hear that Life of a Mobster is coming that soon as it seems my Path of Light will be next.
When I have the time, I would write 800 - 1500 words per day. However, keeping that pace every day is difficult. In the last month, I only managed to write 19 k words instead of the 40 k I hoped for, which resulted in frustration. I also tend to jump from project to project, which doesn’t seem to be efficient in terms of completing a single gamebook. Also, everything over 50 k words seem to be just impossible to finish with writer’s blocks every now and then and a couple of pending works (or WIPs).
It took me about 2 years to write Unnatural but that was in between a 37.5 hour a week job and spending time with my family.
How big is Unnatural, @Nocturnal_Stillness?
I started this January so I’m about 6 months into Community College Hero and I’ve written about 70k words. Probably 30k more words and another 3-4 months to go to finish the draft, run some betas and get it ready for publishing. I’m still shooting for late September!
Work and family eat up weekdays from 6:30am to 9:00pm so I write in hour chunks before going to bed most nights.
Its over 240k words story and code.
One thing I’ve been doing recently is writing my story in a notebook. It can be easier to start writing and get some momentum going with a pen and paper than a keyboard. If you take it around with you, you can jot down ideas whenever you think of them and even do a little writing out and about.
Plus, when you type it up, you have to read through it again, giving you a kind of first proof read. Hope that helps!
That is an interesting approach. Sometimes I really need to get away from that LED screen. The downside is that you need to eventually type the whole thing, which has discouraged me to do so lately.
Oh, another thing - my writing is sometimes hardly readable even for me. It would be interesting to know if other authors do it as well.
I use a pen and paper notebook first for everything but short stories… I find it drastically improves the quality of my writing because I edit as I type it up and clean the diction, or sometimes make more major alterations.
Besides, I like the ability to scratch out what I had before, but still be able to see it for future reference.
To answer a different question on the thread, I usually can write about 500 to 1000 words a day, sometimes more, and as I’m a widowed mum raising two preschoolers, and with some other work as well, I do it at night while they’re asleep mostly. If I have writer’s block I go ahead and write something anyway, even if it’s ridiculous; unfortunately for the preschoolers, I take the same approach to cooking dinner when I feel uninspired. (:0 Sometimes I do find I re-use those ridiculous ideas that come during writer’s block moments as well.
Regarding writer’s block, back when I had been writing steadily for a few years, I never really had that issue because all of the plots and things had been simmering for ages and there was always SOMETHING to write. Starting again after a few years in another field has been difficult, but now that it’s been several months of continuous writer, ‘block’ days have nearly disappeared.
@Mayday if you mean your handwriting is illegible, I’ve not had that, but I do find it difficult to actually READ through something I wrote, if I wrote it recently. I skim instead of actually reading.
Should I interpret your username as some kind of a threat to my person @gkkiller?
@gkex LOL! No, I’m actually a nice guy 
my username is just something I made as a kid and liked enough to keep for most of my usernames.