How long does it take to read Kill Your Darlings?
Kill Your Darlings by Terence Blacker takes about 5 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2000. 292 pages, about 80,300 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Plagiarism, Ambition, Novelists, Fiction, College teachers, Authors
