Kristine McKinley is a rather brave author. The other day, she bravely posted all kinds of statistics pertaining to her writing. I thought it’d be a neat idea to post my own numbers (below). Though I don’t have the kind of detail she’s been keeping, still, it was a good week.
Word count as of last Sunday: 9500
Word count one week later, today, Saturday: 22,000.
I’ll be honest and say I wouldn’t have posted this if I didn’t feel like bragging. My normal word count has been horrible. But recently, thanks to various podcasts I’ve been listening to, and my recent interview with P.T. Hylton, and his videos where he talks about his own progress, things are turning around.
John L. Monk 
Nice work!
I’m doing crazy word counts too!
Congratz back at ya.
Thanks for the compliment. I didn’t think I was being brave posting stats, I just wanted other authors and aspiring authors to have more data available. It’s nice to see the amazing stats that some people are able to post but not everyone has those. Like Steve Vernon said, this isn’t a race. I’m in it for the long haul.
I’ve found if I keep an excel spreadsheet it really helps my numbers, of course yours are amazing so you probably don’t need that step.
I’ve been listening to the Self-Publishing podcast and Johnny B. Truant also found that with the increased talking to other authors his word count increased, so maybe there’s a correlation?
I think knowing that others are doing it helps you to do it. My numbers for this one miserable week were amazing, but usually they’re kind of embarrassing. I’m hoping the change is permanent. It’s cliche to say, but putting my butt in the chair made it happen.
cool.
(But you’ll shoot your eye out.)
haha
So you wrote 12,500 words last week? I envy you. I’m more like Oscar Wilde, who said he spent the whole morning putting in a comma and the whole afternoon taking it back out. Oh well, at least my commas are good.
Excellent quote 🙂
I agree. And Harvey’s commas ARE good. (Hi Harvey!)
Awesome job. Keep it up!
Thanks man, you 2 (serious face).
Hi, Lindy.
I think we need a best comma contest. I vote for the comma in John’s tagline (Death was a good gig, until someone changed the rules…), which has IMO a special elegance that is subtle and difficult to define. John, did you spend an entire morning putting it in, or did it come to you in a sudden blinding flash of inspiration?
That comma was handed down to me by my father, and his father before him. It’s sort of personal so, you know… (:P)
My father had a semicolon that dated back to the Civil War. I always wanted it, but my sister made off with it.
I just noticed that steampunk author Cherie Priest does a daily word metrics post on her blog. Here’s today’s. So cool. http://www.cheriepriest.com/2014/07/09/yea-were-the-all-time-winners-and-here-we-go-again/
That’s pretty cool looking. Also, I just like the way the blog looks in general. Ty man.