April Report
Added 2018-05-01 05:01:03 +0000 UTCThe last chapter of April was published on the 30th, so the April period covers all writing done March 31st to April 30th, a period of 31 days. In that time, 6 chapters, totaling 37,194 words, or an average of 1,200 words per day, and an average chapter length of 6,199 words.
Up from last month, down from historical numbers, with the primary difference being that I didn't spend much time spinning my wheels on things that weren't working, nor on other projects that were calling to me. In other words, I think overall productivity was down, but for Worth the Candle specifically it was up.
(I actually don't think I worked on anything else for the month of April, or I would include it here.)
I don't have much else to report, other than to celebrate 100,000 hits and the imminent milestone of 500,000 words, which is rather a lot of words.
Comments
Yeah, pretty much. For chapters, I have a spreadsheet that I update whenever I post, which has the word count as determined by Google Docs. For other stuff, I will usually either guess, or look at the revision history. For reddit comments, I just Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V into an online counter from my user page, then subtract out a rough guess of words that aren't part of my comments (though if there were a lot of pages, I think I would probably just try to take an average, rather than doing it that way). I usually think that counting to the nearest thousand words is good enough, since counters would disagree amongst themselves for anything lower.
Alexander Wales
2018-05-05 01:10:50 +0000 UTCCuriosity beggars the question, how do you track? Simply check word counts across documents when the month draws to its end, and C&P the major contributions to reddit into an empty document itself to be counted?
Framing Device
2018-05-03 10:08:19 +0000 UTCYou knocked those chapters out of the park!
Andy
2018-05-01 05:02:11 +0000 UTC
