by Katherine Villyard | Dec 16, 2008 | writing stats
Current wordcount: 71015 (woohoo!) Goal wordcount: 80000 Projected draft 0 wordcount: 76669 Projected date to hit 80000 words: 1/3/09 Projected date to hit projected wordcount: 12/27/08 I admit it, I’m relieved to see the projected wordcount go up even though...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 14, 2008 | novels, writing stats
Current wordcount: 69,959. Official wordcount goal: 80,000. Date spreadsheet predicts I’ll hit 80,000: January 2. Predicted draft 0 wordcount: 75,488 (ouch). Predicted day I’ll hit predicted draft 0 wordcount: December 24. I’m not that worried about...
by Katherine Villyard | Jun 3, 2008 | writing stats
According to the spreadsheet of doom, it’s been nineteen days since I last wrote. I promptly threw out my last scene, too, so the word count is less. (61,687.) Did I mention that we were doing an email migration? I think I know what I’m going to do for the...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 13, 2008 | writing mysticism, writing stats
My first drafts of action chapters are about 500-1000 words. This is pitiful, and caused my outline spreadsheet to say my novel would come in short. So I sighed, and turned sentences into paragraphs. It’s now about 2000 words, which is still too short, but at...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 6, 2008 | writing stats
Current wordcount: 25,792 Goal wordcount: 80,000 Guesstimated final wordcount: 81,203 Percent of goal done: 32.24% Percent of guesstimate done: 31.76% At this rate, I’ll reach my goal on: 5/12/08 At this rate, I’ll finish my first draft on:...
by Katherine Villyard | Jan 24, 2008 | writing stats
Current wordcount: 19,833. Goal: 80,000. Average daily wordcount: 566. Average scene length in words: 2260. Guesstimated final wordcount: 85,880. Percent of goal completed: 24.79%. Percent of guesstimated final wordcount done: 23.09% At this rate, I’ll reach my...
by Katherine Villyard | Jan 15, 2008 | writing stats
Lizardfic the novel is currently 15,635 words. According to my spreadsheet metrics, I’m 19.54% of the way towards an 80,000 word goal, and will reach 80,000 words on May 5, but the novel itself is guesstimated to end up being 89,646 words, which would make me...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 30, 2007 | writing stats
I really did get stuff done, writing-wise, but not so you can see it. Sales: 0 Finished stories: Only 1, but it’s really good (IMHO). Rejections: 23 (Go, me!) Time spent on revisions: Insane. I did NaNoEdMo on my NaNovel and also had a broken short that I beat...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 1, 2007 | writing stats
Story sales in March: 0 Story submissions in March: 1 Story rejections in March: 1 Script queries in March: 2 Script requests in March: 0 Script query rejections in March: 1 Script queries with no response written off in March: 11 Script contest entries in March: 0...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 1, 2007 | writing stats
Jen does this every month. I figured it’d be fun. Story sales in February: 0 Story submissions in February: 7 Story rejections in February: 6 Script queries in February: 11 Script requests in February: 0 Script rejections in February: 0 Script contest entries in...