I completed the 150th day of my writing streak on Tuesday which means I’ve written every day since the 30th June. Total word count for those 150 days was 102,135 or about 681 words per day (compared to 737 words per day for the first 100). This is the daily word count graph for those 150 days. (Click for a bigger version) All those words took me 153 hours 15 minutes which is a delicious 666 words per hour. You can see the breakdown by day in this graph which includes time spent revising. (Click for a bigger version) In the fifty days since I last looked at the streak I’ve written about 28, 480 words. Most of that was on the newly re-working titled Glitch Mitchell and the Unseen Planet but I did finish off In the Shadow of Memories and write a flash piece called Clockwork which I’m hoping to revise and send out this weekend. It’s hard to tell from those graphs but if you compare the last 50 days with the first 100 it’s clear that my writing productivity has dropped. With the Christmas break coming up I’m hoping I can buck that trend and pick up the pace … Read More
Metrics Monday – 18th November 2013
Despite being away in Stockholm, I manged a respectable 5,011 words last week. As you can see there was a big spike on Thursday – that was the four hour/2,226 word marathon I managed on the flight back to Vancouver. Without that it would have been a pretty feeble week. Most of that work was on Glitch but Sunday’s writing was actually a new story – working title Clockwork. It’s a science fiction flash piece, about 847 words. Stylistically it’s a bit of a departure for me so we’ll see if I still like it in a week or so when I come back to revise it. [Metrics Monday – 18th November 2013 by Philip Harris first appeared on Solitary Mindset on 18th November 2013]