It's kind of weird hearing this from someone who had to write almost everyday for around a year, but yes, this is one of the things that the job really taught me.
So, first off, you all have to understand... And by "all", I mean everyone, including those who also write or plan on making a living out of writing. Writing isn't easy. Sure, the act of writing, simply putting letters and words on a page, is easy. But writing, the activity where you have to make sense, where you have to communicate with your readers, is hard.
I mean, for that paragraph above alone, I had to edit so many times.
And sure, I know someone who could write 2000 words easy-peasy, but that was already her baseline from years of doing it consistently. I, on the other hand, was not at that level and likely am on a different work pace altogether because of, well, personal differences. For one, I'm not too big on doing editing everything after writing everything, and would rather change what I am typing as I go as I will either forget to edit or not bother to edit once I'm done. If I have to go back, at least the changes are going to be smaller, less overwhelming, and less worrying.
However, how I work doesn't quite, well, work in this particular kind of job. I had to type as much as I could and leave some of the quality and the style I liked to write in out the window. While I did learn to write more, quantitatively, and I had told my friend that I was pleasantly surprised with it, I noticed that my writing itself had changed for the worse as I went on.
So much so that it would take quite a long time for me to recover and unlearn habits that I picked up writing style-wise. I don't think I've even fully recovered at this time that I'm writing in right now. For a while, after I had finished my end of the jobs I took, I was extremely dissatisfied with how I wrote.
And as you might guess, I also had a growing issue with people who believed writing is easy, that it's all about the wordcount. No, I don't think it can be easy. There's so much thought behind good writing. It is a more tangible form of communication, and yet, there are so many non-verbal elements that you couldn't put in there. All you have are words. And so, you must choose those words carefully, arrange them, make them count towards what you want to say. That's the part of writing that I don't think some people understand or value.
It's not all about the wordcount. It's about how the words count.