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chapter+word counter updates! 🏔️
in a shocking (SHOCKING) turn of events, i have yet again extended snow globe, and, as it turns out, i wrote 29,134 total words within 13 days (across a span of 133 days)… including writing 11,987 of those words solely on june 6th.
in a shocking (SHOCKING) turn of events, i have yet again extended snow globe, and, as it turns out, i wrote 29,134 total words within 13 days (across a span of 133 days)… including writing 11,987 of those words solely on june 6th.
written june 8, 2024 @ 7:03am
hello again, my lovelies!
i had much more time than i thought i would this morning, so i took it as a chance to update all of my word counters! 💕 it’s really inspiring to see all this quantitative data about the work i have put into my projects (dissertation, fanfic, book!), and it’s a really powerful reset for me that makes me more excited to keep writing!
some of you may have already seen my freakout on tumblr two days ago (lol), but i had a SIGNIFICANT writing boom on June 6th (and the few days leading up to it, tbh), which resulted in a chapter update!!! yay!!
this post contains the following:
🏔️ chapter update! | snow globe
🎉 word count updates! | 29,134 words written since january 26th 2024, 171,964 total words since august 1st, 2023
chapter update! | snow globe
to absolutely no one’s surprise, this two-shot three-shot story is now a multi-chaptered fic with four six parts.
On July 1st, the lonely house at the top of the mountain was finally sold.
— In which Jack(son) Overland tries his best to befriend his neighbor, one woodworking project at a time. { neighbors-to-lovers!fic, modern-mountain-living!au }
Prompt from @aicosu: Three-word sentences: "Just say it."
ao3 ❆
part i: bushwhacking grandma (13,282 words | aug. 4, 2023)
part ii: barnyard peasant (11,550 words | dec. 20, 2023)
part iii: Scandinavian woodworking techniques (13,163 words | jan. 6, 2024)
part iv: cinnamon rolls (9,740 words | jan. 27, 2024)
part v: friendship rule #1 (25,991 words | jun., 6, 2024)
part vi: [coming… later!]
an observation (from january 2024). i’ve never wrote a fic in which the characters are experiencing time more or less the same way i am as the author (i.e., part i is set and written in july/august and published in august; part ii is written during fall and early winter, then published in december; part iii is written during christmastime and then published right after the new year… who knows what will happen with part iv 👀).
update (from today, june 8, 2024): so, i wasn’t quite able to get the chapters completely aligned! part v ends on april 30th, while in reality it’s june 7th. i fear there may also be a bit of a lag with part vi, but… close enough!
word counter updates!
between january 26th and june 6th, there were 120 days (out of 133 days: 90.23%) in which 0 words were written, meaning that Kris wrote fanfiction on only 13 days (9.77%) out of 133 days total.
starting by writing 873 words on january 26th (the day before part iv was released), the draft for part v (and part vi, eventually) grew to 29,134 total words written by june 6th (133 days later).
left side of the graph:
1,216 of these words (4.17%) were written between january 26th and may 19th (3 months, 23 days), averaging 10.67 words per day during the spring semester.
right side of the graph:
27,223 (96.33%) of those words were written between may 20th and june 6th (17 days; but i wrote only on 11 of those days), averaging 1,512 words per day.
the most words written on any given day was 11,987 words on june 6th.
words written in may: 12,673 (averaging 1,056 per day).
words written in june (so far): 16,461 (averaging 2,744 per day).
click the image to visit the official word counter!
since august 1, 2023, as of june 7, 2024 (10 months and 6 days), i have written 111,681 words of fanfiction.
(64.9%) fandom:
111,681 words
dropped 15.23% from 80.13% (in january)
(32.4%) dissertation study:
55,634 words
(total resulting wordcount; does not include re-writes and words eventually left in the scrap doc)
(does not include emails, grant applications, grading student papers/peer review/peer feedback, slide decks, or data coding and data analysis. 😂🫠); written from december ‘23 to april ‘24, not including countless countless countless re-writes!
increased 15.98% from 16.42% (in january)
(2.99%) non-fiction/dissertation book:
5,149 words
dropped by 0.46% from 3.45% (in january)
reflections on timing…
fall 2023 was a time of data coding, data analysis, transcription, data cleaning, data annotation, peer feedback/review, grading student papers, and many many grant applications (money!!!!!!)
spring 2024 was, INDEED, a full-throttle academic writing semester!! all my heaviest deadlines for career-related goals and benchmarks were january, february, and march... 💪🥲 and the dissertation proposal defense was in april!!
let’s take a look at my breaks, shall we?
between december 20th and january 5th (16 days), i wrote 37,074 words of fanfiction, averaging 2,317 per day! 😭🙏
between may 20th and june 6th (17 days, including the 6 days in that time period in which i did not write anything at all), i wrote 27,223 words of fanfiction, averaging 1,512 per day.
thank you!
if you’ve made it to the end of this post—thank you! 🥹 calculating and sharing these data gives me such a powerful feeling and reminds me that i very much can, indeed, do hard things (AND I DO THEM OFTEN lol 💕). it’s inspiring to see quant data like this!!
after tallying up all of the word counts in the charts and making the graphs, it’s so easy for me to see patterns and trends in my writing habits—often in ways that would not be possible with self-reflection alone. 🥰 here’s to a rich, full, productive summer!
thanks again, all, and happy writing!
in a shocking (SHOCKING) turn of events, i have yet again extended snow globe, and, as it turns out, i wrote 29,134 total words within 13 days (across a span of 133 days)… including writing 11,987 of those words solely on june 6th.