#monthly word count

[thisapplepielife]

Monthly Word Count Wrap-Up

November 2024

One more down, one month to go.

November was a little rough. A lot of my will to write was knocked back, and that has really shown in the numbers. I worked on 5 different projects this month, for a total of 21,689 words. (Steddie Thoughts is my dumping ground for words that exist, but won't turn into anything.)

My 500 words a day streak is still being dragged along behind me by sheer force of will alone at this point, lol. I let myself get behind schedule on my entries for @steddieholidaydrabbles which started today. Go check it out to participate and/or follow along with the entries! I know there will be lots of good stuff coming from many amazing contributors this month.

That said, you can see that's where I spent the majority of my time this month, working on the prompts for it, just trying to get even slightly ahead of the curve:

In November, I averaged 722.97 words a day.

And the yearly average, now sits at 1024.87 words per day.

I was nominated for a Writer's Spotlight over on @steddieunderdogfics and my day was 11/6. Thanks so much for including me! It made my day, and it was so much fun to answer the questions.

If you'd like to read my answers about my writing process and/or fics, you can check that out HERE.

What I Posted This Month:

There's Just One Who Could Make Me Stay (For Steddie Micro, T, 532)

Men Are All Lining Up, to Put Me on a Pedestal (Corroded Coffin Fest, E, 8160)

[thewolfparadox]

June Word Count

Total: 9,453 words

6,057 - DSMP Firefly AU

3,396 - CF12

I'm entering the final stage of the firefly au. I can see the path to the end

As for the next Chasing Fate story, I've been picking away at it in the background and I really like what I have so far

[nade2308writes]

October had only a "handful" of words to offer, compared to September's 100k+ words, but that's okay. It was mostly editing the fics for Whumptober, and starting a few snippets on some ideas.

[cassarson]

Ok, so I was feeling really bad about how I haven't been reading that many regular books recently, but I felt like I was spending more time reading books than ever, so I decided to add up the word counts of everything I'd read this month to see if I was actually low.

I don't know what sort of number I expected to get, but it certainly wasn't

1,165,771

Words in January. And this is just fanfic. Granted, I counted rereads, which are always a bit faster, but still! That's so many fucking words! According to Google, that's rough 14 and a half novels! That's like a regular book every two days! It's an average of 37500 a day!

.... How much time am I spending on my phone? Ok, I know it's a lot but how much is fanfic? Let's see.

Apparently I spent just north of 75 and a half hours on Chrome this month, and had an average of 2 1/3 hours per day. So that's roughly 15.5k words per hour, 260 words per minute.

Lesson learned: im still reading an awful lot, and data collection on yourself is fun! Definitely going to become a monthly post, if only for archival purposes.

[worstloki]

Urge to write comedy 🤝 urge to write angst

(Neither is getting written)

[universalfanfic]

OCT: 3,056

2024 Word Count Tally (Goal: 100k)

JAN: 24,871

[messrsrarchives]

August Fic Recap

a slower month than usual with a lot of rereads, and mostly wolfstar <3

Total fics: 29

Total wc: 1,379,151

New Fics

The Road Not Taken - MollyMaryMarie (88,278)

Aging Gracelessly - orphaned (13,280)

Light in August - orestesfasting (21,104)

we'll keep the king - BlueSundayCake (26,000)

Solntse - lumosinlove (61,997)

Your Baby Grows A Tooth - wulfstars (71,140)

Chasing Dreams - thelunaloos (28,031)

Sometimes We Stumble - SunMoonStar60 (32,021)

Laughing all the way - Wheat_marten (17,870)

A Cure For Nightmares - picascribit (36,083)

Boot Scootin' Baby - cancerravenclaw (20,972)

Beneath a Big Blue Sky - eyra (68,298)

snapshots from a campground near mystic peak, alberta - eyra (17,172)

a memory stolen, a memory gained - maladaptivewriting (30,376)

Chasing Glory - YumeNouveau (8,844)

Highland Fling - picascribit (38,369)

The Last Trial of Peter Pettigrew - sleepstxtic (20,779)

Uncharted Territory - Thealmostrhetoricalquestion (12,444)

Drifting - Eniaos (44,000)

Discards - picascribit (76,033)

die young, stay pretty - veridity (72,080)

Rereads

Sweater Weather - lumosinlove (156,108)

A Wolf's Heart - mizdiz (87,051)

Liebestraum - lunchbucket (101,369)

Bird Set Free - MollyMaryMarie (70,984)

what's it gonna be - industrations, alarainai (9,060)

Sorry I'm Late - I Was Searching For You - EuripidesTrousers (84,203)

that's the art of getting by - sarewolf (40,459)

Under the Eucalyptus - xinasvoice (24,747)

[ginnyw-potter-archive]

If you ever wonder how I keep track of what I'm posting when, just know there is an excel sheet involved, and it's colour-coded

[bluejaywriter]

Anyway, I've been sitting on "The Five Times Queen Hippolyta Had Her Heart Broken (and the one time she didn't)" for about 2.5 years and 2024 seems like as good time as any to finally release it!

[ayyponine]

might fuck around and do yotp25 btw. local woman simply can not stop writing her stupid lil stories of blorbos having hard conversations and falling in looove

in a shocking turn of events though after a few years doin 3 bang events, 3 holiday exchanges, 2 other types of collaboration and of course a whole lot of self indulgent shit just fr meee all totalling *checks notes* over 275k dedicated to one ship. at last i am moving on to smth new. or rather. an old comfort ship. and possibly also a ship i vaguely am aware of but have never written about but now figured hey. yknow what i might have some things to say. that is right i might do the challenge simultaneously fr two different fandoms. twotp event if you will.

soo anyway ship 1 i literally wrote ONE >2k gen fic fr way back in 2014 but it’s a pairing i think of fondly and still carry within me low key a little. also au’s/reincarnation was/is a trend in that fandom which allows perfectly fr me to play around w the diff prompts while making a single cohesive story in monthly bite sized bits which had me like oooo. mayhaps i Would like to dive back in fr a while and play around w them thank you very much..

ship 2 again is not smth i actively ship but! i have Thoughts on the characters and their dynamic i might wish to Share with the rest of the class. again rather than separate drabbles i wanna make it all chapters of one story hoyyeverr since i need to obey the order of the monthly prompts these are not chronological (though still evenly distributed across past present future aka pre during and post canon events as instalments of again, one single narrative thread). tryin to figure out how i can fuck around w both the actual written text and its general structure to make clear the chronological order while making it a good solid read fr the monthly updates aka the order in which every new piece of the puzzle will be published. all im gonna say abt this ship is i loved that theres prompts fr 12 months w possibility of a bonus 13 to give a multifaceted view canon can not touch on. otherwise do not even fucking look at me and my intentions

absolutely devastated i might need to drop hanahaki fr both bc problematic or no i am a sucker fr that shit. i LICHERALLYYY just did a regency hanahaki au fr a ship mere months ago and yet here i am again. can NOT be sated yet unfortunately both stories i have in mind fr this are indeed, entirely set in this world which would not allow fr that type of setup even a lil bit rip

absolutely delighted january starts w a first kiss, feb has bed sharing/this made me think of u type tenderness and november enables a touch starved/are you sure combo of absolutely devastating consent after ages of pining from both the characters and readers. in march i am absolutely canonically murdering some guys though do not get me wrong. the hurt and comfort is what i live for baybeeeee

[vivianwrite]

Monthly Writing Summary - April 2024

THE MYSTERIES OF THE APRICOT SUN 🌇

Word count: 35,300

Words added: 7,120

Current chapter: 13 out of 32 / Draft 1

Estimated completion: 39% (+9%)

Snippet:

Consicor gave him another night, two at most, until he dropped his embarrassment and started acting normal again. He was like clockwork: blab something he shouldn’t have, flit away for a bit, then put it all behind him.

Notes:

Highlights from this month: nail painting and high fashion.

I’m working on the pic for 35K!

THE CLAWS OF THE OUNCE 🫀

Word count: 48,165

Words added: 7,035

Current chapter: 12 / 13 (working on both at once) out of 28 / Draft 2

Estimated completion: 45% (+7%)

Snippet:

As the cold water drummed against her shoulders, Ash reflected on the misery of this summer. Its heat seemed much more oppressive than ever before. Perhaps it was the added warmth of Orion’s being that did it.

Notes:

Chapter 13 is one hell of a ride.

THE GIFT OF GLOVES 🧤

Word count: 7,955

Words added: 1,555

Current chapter: 3 out of 7 / Draft 2

Estimated completion: 40% (+10%)

Snippet:

This was the point of no return. Lapax tilted her head, her pelt ruffling slightly along her spine. The dyed yellow patterns distorted with her feelings.

Notes:

Making more headway, woo!

MORE NOTES

I’ve decided to stop setting the “monthly goals”. Just the daily goals are better for me.

On the 8th, I wrote up the opening scene for a different story idea (it involves a solar eclipse, so I felt it was only appropriate). Don’t expect this one anytime soon, though — that story idea still has a lot of cooking to do.

Tag list (completely optional): @time-to-write-and-suffer @emwhyarentyouwriting @agirlandherquill @ashen-crest

[thisapplepielife]

Monthly Word Count Wrap-Up

August 2024

This was a rough month. It's been straight out of the AO3 author's note curse handbook over here. It was just an in the snow, uphill both ways, trek, lol.

I think I might need to just take a step back from participating in so many events, although I love them, and just focus on editing up the final part of All Across the Universe, and then go from there.

That's the one obligation I need to fulfill. I'm so sorry it's later than expected. I didn't want to work on it when my head wasn't in it.

This month, I wrote the least of any month this year so far:

But I still somehow worked on 13 different projects this month, for a total of 22,500 words. My 500 words a day streak is still alive. Barely. You can see on a lot of days, that I just pushed through writing until I hit my 500 words. Often, late at night, and on a new document that if it was nothing, it was nothing. I'll be interested to go back later and see if anything was worth expanding.

The last few days were finally better. I edited some on AATU. I wrote some on a couple different WIPs because I wanted to, not because I had a word count to hit. So, maybe this was just a fluke of a month and I'll be totally fine and back to normal moving forward. Or I'll need to just cut back. Time will tell, I suppose.

Either way, in August I averaged 725.81 words a day.

And the yearly average, sits at 1070.35 words per day.

What I Posted This Month:

Never Not Mine (For Steddie Angsty August, E, 3240 Words)

Just the Facts (For A Stranger Summer Week #14, T, 813 Words)

Different Lessons (For Steddie Angsty August, T, 3300 Words)

Tip Your Driver (For A Stranger Summer Week #15, T, 4115 Words)

I'm An Island, But You're An Ocean (For Steddie Angsty August, T, 2191 Words)

Firing on All Cylinders (For A Stranger Summer Week #16, T, 3000 Words)

Clean Sheets Night (For Steddie Angsty August, T, 1374 Words)

Of All the Gin Joints (For A Stranger Summer Week #17, T, 1938 Words)

Heat Waves (For Steddie Song Fics, T, 1500 Words)

Embarrassing For You (Late Entry For Steddie Micro, T, 437 Words)

She Still Wants More (For A Stranger Summer Week #18, T, 448 Words)

[thewolfparadox]

August Word Count

I kept forgetting to post this lmao

Total: 8,326 words

1,587 - DSMP Firefly AU

6,739 - Baldur's Gate 3 ramblings

You can use context clues to figure this one out. August isn't my lowest month but it was very close to becoming it

We'll see if I can turn things around in September 🤞

[christmassavestheyear]

tags ✮

#txt !! → my text posts #img !! → my image posts #reblogs !! → rb'd posts #queue !! → queued posts #mp3 !! → music posts #ask answered → asks #anon → anon asks #saved by a stranger → saved posts #mutuals → posts with/about my mutuals<33 #ask bait → ask games #polls → any polls #nova's monthly start up !! → the goals post i make each month #mecore !! → me posts #free palestine → any posts about palestine conflict #my fics -> any fanworks i write #fic recs -> any fanworks i read

[authorkarajorgensen]

July 2024 Wrap-Up Post

July was my birthday month, and luckily, it was a good one for getting writing done. Despite the heat and humidity, I enjoyed July and tried to take time to keep myself from flaming out. A reminder of our goals: Write 25,000 words Outline next chunk of book Do a cover reveal and make graphics for them Maintain my mental health better (oops) Blog weekly Read 8 books Send out my July…

[eaymtb]

oh my god done. 11491 words. hiatus now officially officially over.