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I've attempted to look this up, and have a rough estimation of how many pages can be recommended. For a standard journal size that's college ruled, it depends on what one does for their journals. For single-spaced sorts of deals, it's around 500-600 words. As for a regular-style double-spaced deal, it's 250-300 words, from what I found. It can be around 100-500 words as an average, so about 750-900 words should be a good target.

Now, this can be a guideline, which is quite malleable when you think about it for a second. I just wrote over 1k today as a result of this, considering that I'm just the type of guy who will sit down and just do stuff.

Recap

  • Single-spaced: 500-600 words
  • Double-spaced: 250-300 words
  • Target: 750-900 words all things considered, but can be adjusted if necessary
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[-] msokiovt@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

That's why I said it was a flexible rule of thumb. I get it otherwise, knowing that I don't use college ruled stuff that often.

[-] Unattributed@feddit.online 1 points 1 month ago

Sure, just thought I would share my reasoning for coming up with the 300–350 words that I put in the original announcement.

Also, something else that I forgot to mention... If we went by 500 words per page, that would mean that a daily entry would be around 1500 words. 1500 words is within 200 words of the FediWriMo goal of 1666 words. I didn't want to have a goal that was too close to the FediWriMo goal for writing a journal.

[-] msokiovt@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I could certainly see why. Good thing we have the 300-350 word/page rule of thumb to begin with.

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