Word Count Dropped Under Pulp Speed One…
Four Difficult Months in a Row…
I know that happens, but now we shall see what I can do for the last six months of the year. But going to take a climb to get back over Pulp Two (1.2 million consumable words in a year.)
I keep my running monthly word count on the right of this blog.
Math is my friend. I need about 720,000 words in six months. Or about 120,000 words a month.
About 4,000 words a day roughly, so about 3.5 to 4 hours a day. Yup, I can do that.
Hope everyone is doing well on their yearly challenges or their reset challenges.
And I hope you all are making it through the Time of Great Forgetting. Of course, if you are not, you won’t read this post until closer to August 1st. (grin)
8 Comments
Mary H
me googling “Dean Wesley Smith + the time of great forgetting” Thank you Dean!
Vincent Zandri
My word count is also down lately Dean. Maybe 2K words per day. Im a firm believer that the hot, humid weather contributes to a decline in production. Rather, it can contribute. Ultimately I blame myself…
Harvey Stanbrough
Hang in there, Dean (like I need to tell You that).
My own June sagged at only 57355 words of fiction and 25480 nonfiction. On the year I’m still at PS1 with 520807 in fiction and 664823 overall.
On the upside, yesteray I finished my 13th novel on the year (never did that before) and it’s only July 1. And extended my every-two-week novel writing and publishing streak to 21 novels in 42 weeks. Clinging like a kudzu vine. (grin)
dwsmith
Fantastic!! Harvey, you are setting a great goal for me when I fire up on novels next year. Keep going!! Make it impossible for me to ever catch you.
Mangala McNamara
WOW!!!
James Palmer
That’s ambitious but doable for you, Dean. You’ve got this.
For me this is the time of ramping back up after slowing down over the winter months. I try to do 1,000 words per day and focus on finished projects vs total word count. That project might be a 30k word novella, a 70k word novel, or a 7k word short story. As long as I get a Kickstarter project out of it, that’s all I care about.
Harvey Stanbrough
James, the link to your site is broken. Just FYI.
Mangala McNamara
Every time you write “Time of Great Forgetting” my mind goes back to the Land Before Time animated movie series (young dinos on a quest… and yes, there was a series… which my kids devoured and I enjoyed, too. Simple, but worth watching. )
One of the movies was “The Time of the Great Giving”…
I need to go rewatch that now…