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If you are a skilled writer, the goals you mention in your question may be not unrealistic. (1,2,3,4). Some of the most usable advice I've seen appears in the writing blog of Rachel Aaron. A brief excerpt from the blog follows. I ended up creating a metric, a triangle with three core requirements: Knowledge, Time, and Enthusiasm. Any one of these can ...

20 pages per day is 5000 words per day. That's a lot. That said, here are some ways to increase your daily output: Write for more time every day. Write without editing or even critiquing. You can always critique later, and edit later if necessary. This might end up increasing the total time you spend critiquing and editing, which in turn might eat into ...

Pick your problem from the list... Typing speed: If it helps, you can stare intensely at your keyboard while you type and edit later. If you can go at light speed while looking at the keys, do it. Then, later, you'll be able to look up from your typing. When I was twelve (three years ago), I could hit 70wpm if I was looking at my keyboard, and maybe 30wpm ...

I don't have the text in front of me so my numbers may not be completely accurate but I can at least give you a general sense of why the number of pages you write each day is a meaningless metric. In Anne Lamott's book on writing, Bird by Bird she notes that the most prolific writers manage to write only one book about every 5-7 years. Regardless of how ...