Originally posted by Riger82:

Does the number of days matter? I've gotten to day 3 so far just chopping wood. I gathered enough flint to craft the chopping block and upgraded my axe and hammer to +2, and have filled 12 slots with 50 wood stacks :P
On another note. My wood chopping skill is at 21. I'm not actually sure if that's fast or not.

Progressing fast or slow doesn't really matter, you can take as long as you want. The game will tell you if you're going TOO fast... Usually by killing you. If you keep dying while trying to go somewhere or do something, that's the games way of telling you there's something you need to learn or do differently.