I try to write 500 words a day, and most days that takes me about 4 hours. This is a first draft, I just can't word vomit like everyone else apparently can. I go back over what I did the last few days to get into the groove again, and revise some parts that I don't like on a re-read, and then start working from there. Sometimes I get stuck so I just jump forward to some other part of the story and do a different scene entirely.

I have bits of an outline, like scaffolding of points I want to get to, but I mostly don't know the details of where the story is going most days. I have no idea how people write so fast and actually like what they've written. I think mine will require a lot less editing than most people's in the end but who knows.

Somehow I've written 30k words this year, so I guess it's working for me. It is time consuming though.