That reflects most of my experiences. I usually thought in terms of an average &quot;production day&quot; which was usually about half of an actual day writing with the rest of the day researching, &quot;researching,&quot; and doing various client work.<p>Of course, it varied. We often talked in terms of &quot;memo grade&quot; writeups for things like summarizing an advisory day which fell more in the 2K words&#x2F;day range. On the other hand, I&#x27;ve spent the better part of a day trying to figure how to get into a piece and then ending up throwing away the whole introduction the next day.