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Sun, 12 Nov 2006

Literary "accomplishments"

I think it's official, I'm now a ridiculously speedy novelist. At 9:30 tonight (or thereabouts), I passed the 50,000 word mark, hitting 50,909. The story's not done yet, but it's pretty close. The final battle's been won, the heroes have escaped, and now there's just the wrapping-up to do, and the inevitable, cheezy setup for the next story in the series.

That is, if you've been keeping track, 50,909 words in 11 days, 21.5 hours. 285.5 hours. Averaging 178.3 words per hour, 4279.6 words per day. Average wordlength is 5.77 characters per word.

Other interesting stats: I went through three sets of batteries on the Model 102 (the last one persevering only about 1 hour for some reason, despite being fully charged). 99% of the book was written on the Model 102, with minor editing happening on other computers. Rewriting and editing will not be happening on the 102, thank you very much. That thing is painful to edit with.

My average writing session length was probably around 3 hours. I seemed to hit about 1,000 words per hour, although I'd guess it went as low as 700 wph, and as high as 1,500. I definitely write better in multi-hour sessions than I do in short bursts, although more than 2 hours and I start getting antsy for some physical movement.

I guess I'm going to spend the rest of the month doing some rewriting and horrible, horrible embellishment. Oh yes, there will be adjectives. Adjectives aplenty. Editors will cringe from my very presence, sensing the horror all a-churn in my brain.

Posted at 21:53 permanent link category: /misc

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Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater