happy new year
Jan. 1st, 2019 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I didn’t do any deep retrospective or wrap-up kind of analysis on my year, yet. Maybe I will. I don’t remember, did I last year?
I did take a glance at my AO3 stats. There’s no deep conclusion to be drawn, though– here’s the trend. 2013: 213,082 words posted. 2014: 381,701. 2015: 382,719. 2016: 411,584. 2017: 189,899. And 2018: 41,790.
Pretty clear that my decision in 2016 to cut my hours at work so I could write more has not paid off long-term, because of course, the farm has grown to fill all available space, and I can’t write when I’m there very well, so.
Some of the alarming trend toward not writing at all is exaggerated, though, because those are words posted, not words written. To figure out how many words I wrote this year, I’d have to look at revision histories in scattered documents. But the big main thing is that of course no original writing goes up on AO3, so none of that is displayed. I spent all year noodling on this thing with the mammoths, and had no big fandom meanwhile.
I did get 50k words for November, and cut out the irrelevant ones from dead-end stories and tangents at the end of that month, and over the course of December I’ve managed to claw back up to about 42,000 words on that story.
I might start regularly posting it on Dreamwidth. I don’t know how else to give myself some of that boost that posting to AO3 used to give me. I don’t want to publish this book piecemeal, I want to actually compile it into a Formally Publishable format, although at this point I strongly doubt whether I’ll bother trying to submit to an agent or whatever– that’s for people who can get their shit together, and I very clearly am not that sort of person.
So anyway. One last plug for me on DW, I guess, if you want to read the solarpunk mammoths novel; I’ll post it f-locked, and kinda disclaimer from the beginning that I’ll probably just be posting a very rough draft and probably not the complete thing, but it should be a fun little romp through world-building and character development if anyone wants to tag along.
Meanwhile– I do still check in on Tumblr and PF once in a while but I have a lot more free time since I stopped mindlessly endless-scrolling Tumblr, and there are some of you who I miss very much but since there’s so much redundant content on Tumblr it’s hard to find you, and I’m sorry for that. But I have found a almost enough excitement on DW to sustain me– and since there are privacy filters there, I feel like I can post original writing, so that’s where my home will be going forward.
(I also am putting up assloads of photos on Flickr so anyone who feels like they’ve missed out, there I am too.)
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I didn’t do any deep retrospective or wrap-up kind of analysis on my year, yet. Maybe I will. I don’t remember, did I last year?
I did take a glance at my AO3 stats. There’s no deep conclusion to be drawn, though– here’s the trend. 2013: 213,082 words posted. 2014: 381,701. 2015: 382,719. 2016: 411,584. 2017: 189,899. And 2018: 41,790.
Pretty clear that my decision in 2016 to cut my hours at work so I could write more has not paid off long-term, because of course, the farm has grown to fill all available space, and I can’t write when I’m there very well, so.
Some of the alarming trend toward not writing at all is exaggerated, though, because those are words posted, not words written. To figure out how many words I wrote this year, I’d have to look at revision histories in scattered documents. But the big main thing is that of course no original writing goes up on AO3, so none of that is displayed. I spent all year noodling on this thing with the mammoths, and had no big fandom meanwhile.
I did get 50k words for November, and cut out the irrelevant ones from dead-end stories and tangents at the end of that month, and over the course of December I’ve managed to claw back up to about 42,000 words on that story.
I might start regularly posting it on Dreamwidth. I don’t know how else to give myself some of that boost that posting to AO3 used to give me. I don’t want to publish this book piecemeal, I want to actually compile it into a Formally Publishable format, although at this point I strongly doubt whether I’ll bother trying to submit to an agent or whatever– that’s for people who can get their shit together, and I very clearly am not that sort of person.
So anyway. One last plug for me on DW, I guess, if you want to read the solarpunk mammoths novel; I’ll post it f-locked, and kinda disclaimer from the beginning that I’ll probably just be posting a very rough draft and probably not the complete thing, but it should be a fun little romp through world-building and character development if anyone wants to tag along.
Meanwhile– I do still check in on Tumblr and PF once in a while but I have a lot more free time since I stopped mindlessly endless-scrolling Tumblr, and there are some of you who I miss very much but since there’s so much redundant content on Tumblr it’s hard to find you, and I’m sorry for that. But I have found a almost enough excitement on DW to sustain me– and since there are privacy filters there, I feel like I can post original writing, so that’s where my home will be going forward.
(I also am putting up assloads of photos on Flickr so anyone who feels like they’ve missed out, there I am too.)
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