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Okay, today was the first day back to exercise since I hurt my leg.  My leg is not happy, but I did it.  Yea!.  I did six pages on STROKE OF MIDNIGHT this morning.  Yea, again!  I owe myself a minimum of two more pages this afternoon.  Eight is my usual min for a book, but at the very beginning of a book I don’t press, because sometimes at the beginning you end up wandering around a little, getting your feet under you.  I feel like my feet are finally on firm enough ground to put my minimum out there and make it day after day. 
For all of you thinking that eight is a lot of pages for a minimum, well, you don’t want to know what my maximum is for a book schedule.  There are plenty of writers out there that do two pages a day, and count themselves lucky to get it.  Four pages a day is a lot for most writers.  The average seems to be between two and five for professional writers.  Those who do it everyday like a job.  You do have those that work in bursts.  You know, twenty pages one day, two pages the next.  I may have a day or two like that in any given book, but those that write every book in bursts with days in between with nothing . . . I just don’t understand how that works.  It would drive me mad.  For me a book gets into a rhythm, and that rhythm becomes a number of pages per day.  But hey, whatever works for you.
Gotta go catch lunch, then back to work for the pages I owe myself.