A Journey in Word Counts, part 2

Three years ago — 2011, the year I began querying — I posted my writing journey in word counts. I thought it’d be fun to revisit this now that my first book comes out in less than a month.

2005 – 2010: ~489,000 words

A more detailed summary of these writing years in the link

2011: ~90,000 words

This is a rough approximation, covering further edits on an old ms for the first half of the year and then writing and completing Gates of Thread and Stone in the second half.

2012: ~105,000 words

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