I thought it would be fun to post an ongoing, monthly update on how many words I’m writing per month. This gives me a better idea of how much I’m producing, and gives the interested something to follow along with here at the blog.
I missed posting August’s numbers here on the blog (those of you following my facebook page, however, should have seen them already).
So here they are.
August:
56,000 words. Almost all of this was fiction, and does not include blog posts, FB comments, or non-fiction works.
September:
Around 135,000 words. Over 65,000 of these were fiction, though about 70,000 were nonfiction. I have a book on writing and publishing I’m working on for Brackburn, and I also have some nonfiction titles I’m working on under a different name. Most of the projects I started in September ended up being longer projects (August focused on short stories, mostly). The stories I’m working on now will probably be novella or short-novel lengths, and I’m hoping to have them out to readers by the end of the year, but we’ll see.
I was surprised by how much I managed to accomplish in September. Before I did the math, I thought for sure I would have written less than August, because I had various health problems, fatigue, poison ivy, and other things to slow me down. I also had to do revisions for The Book of Secrets (watch for it in November!). We’ll see how October goes: I want to finish up my novella projects and finalize my outline for book four in my fantasy series so that the actual draft writing can start in November.