345,028* – An Attempted Summary of 2015

345,028 is the pin code for a post office in Askandra, Jaisalmer District, Rajasthan, India.#345028 is also the hexadecimal color for a lovely shade of evergreen.US345028 is the patent number for Thaddeus Cahill’s keyed organ. And 345,028 is the number of words I wrote in 2015, fictionwise, not counting blog posts, Cooking the Books, a certain cookbook, and other writing.

I’ve been chronicling my wordcount using an excel sheet developed by Christie Yant. Last year, my goal was to write bette...