500 words today. It’s a better practice than 333 a day, if only I can make the effort; not only because it requires me to concentrate for a longer period but because it moves infinitesimally closer to the speed at which a reader actually takes it; my immediate memory extends back over more pages, my immediate intentions can cover a greater area, the compositional unit becomes the paragraph rather than the sentence and sometimes—in the best case—I can even see a bit of motion. If I can keep it up through July and August I should have most of this done before my class starts.
