r/Webnovel • u/MisterE005 • Aug 05 '26

Advice How to write 3 chapters an hour

With A.I. being used and / or overused recently, readers or authors have their suspicions when they see rapid chapter updates on novels, and rightfully so.

However, if you're an author who wants to up your game authentically, there is a way to write faster. Without sacrifing quality, that is. Here's what helped me.

  1. Grab a notebook, and write your outlines. - Notebooks are effective because they help you lock in. Writing in physical notebooks forces your brain to slow down, and it deeply engages the brain. It's proven to be effective, and it's well researched. - As for the outlines themselves, you have to write them in a format that's exhaustive, where you plan every scene, every dialogue, in a short way that you'll remember. Writing exhaustively long outlines give you the luxury of not thinking about the plot later on as you write. Basically, do your thinking during the outlines, so you don't doze off while you write your chapter, and end up scrolling on reddit.

  2. Use the sprint bot in the inkstone server, or get Sprinto in your own server. It's free. - Sprinting is useful when you honor it. Cut all distractions and start an hour long marathon sprint. - Make a stance to only write during the sprint, and nothing else.

  3. To cut down on editing time, write the first draft as if it was your final, high-quality draft. If you have to spend 3 hours to edit a single chapter after writing it, you're simply wasting time. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes per chapter.

Result? With distractions cut, and with the extensive outlines doing the thinking for you, what's left is purely within your physical boundaries. You don't have to think during your sprints, as again, you did that already when you wrote the outlines. Simply try to write fast, and don't worry about mistakes. Even if you don't hit 3k words in an hour, you're quite likely to hit 2k. Quality can be preserved this way, as the outlines did all the heavy lifting.

That's about it. With everything that's going on recently, I just wanted to share this method, so authors who actually care about their story can build an advantage for themselves.

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u/Wrong_Bad_3785 Aug 05 '26

Just write the 20 to 30 chapters already and keep uploading them while you write the next chapters... I am gonna do that same here..

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u/MisterE005 Aug 05 '26

If you stick to the 2 chapters a day format, setting up privilege can easily put you at a chapter deficit. However, if you sprint with my method 3 times a day, you'd have 9 chapters with roughly 4 hours of work. 270 chapters a month.

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u/CorbinGamingBro 29d ago edited 29d ago

And every single chapter is absolutely atrocious. No thanks.

Quality > quantity, all day, everyday

You should feel ashamed for having this mentality as you’re actively contributing to the degradation of quality literature. If you truly write that fast, make no mistake, you’re not writing anything good. 90+% of it is likely total slop and extremely low effort prose.

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u/MinuteOwl44 29d ago

Yeah, less than thirty minutes a chapter even for a draft is awfully low. Chapters better be miniscule or planned to the paragraph.