Just the stats, ma’am

This weekend I got curious about how much I’d written, as well as published, this year.

I didn’t keep track of actual word count this year. It wouldn’t have made sense, at least not for the first few months of the year. I might try to keep better track next year as I’ll be doing much more straight generation, and not as much revision. I won’t keep track of the words written elsewhere, for example, this blog.

What I’ve written to date:

Light revisions on novel “Clockwork Kingdom” (~2000 words)

Major revisions on novel “Zydeco Queen and the Creole Fairy Courts” (~ 30,000 words)

Wrote “The Raven and the Dancing Tiger” (~66,000 words)

Wrote 10 short stories (~60,000 words)

Total: ~158,000 words. Not bad, actually. That comes to an average of ~500 words per day for the year so far.

I plan to write another 10 short stories before the end of the year, so we’ll see if I will maintain or up that average.

What I’ve published to date:

19 titles. This is counting some titles “twice” — the ebook version counts as one, and the paperback version counts as one, because of the amount of work that needs to go into the paperback version. Some of these titles were backlist as well.

Before the end of the year, I will have at least 2 more to add to the published total (“The Raven and the Dancing Tiger,” both as an ebook and as paper.)

I don’t know how many of the 10 short stories I’ll publish — we’ll have to see how I feel about them once I’ve written them.

My goal for publishing was to publish 25 pieces this year. I’m close to that, and I’m very pleased. I wasn’t tracking any of these numbers closely, but I’m happy to see how far I’ve come.

And now, time to move forward!

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