It’s New Year’s eve and tomorrow we all get clean slates. But before we guzzle the champagne and resolve to write ten books this year, I think we ought to look back at all that we’ve accomplished in 2013.
Trust me, I bet you’ve done more than you think you have.
For me, 2013 has been a hard year. One of the hardest recently, and I’ll be happy to see it go. This might seem like a funny thing for me to say, because some pretty big things happened for me this year. I got engaged, I got an agent, and I finished graduate school. Yes, these are great victories! But it’s always the writing that feels like a constant uphill battle. Trying to keep my energy up, find the time, balance my personal and professional life, and be sure to put my fingers to the keyboard each week.
It takes so long to write a book, and because of the length of the process, I often feel like I haven’t accomplished much at all. So, I decided to try and quantify the writing I did this year. It’s hard to know the amount of hours I put in (though one of my new year’s resolutions is to keep a time sheet), so I’ve decided to count my words instead. What turned up surprised me. I’ve actually put in a lot more work than I thought.
My word count totals for 2013 are:
- 60,162 words: Steampunk novel (first draft).
- 58,612 words: Fantasy novel (NaNoWriMo draft).
- 20,000 new words, and countless polishing drafts that can’t be quantified in word count: Contemporary YA novel (8000th draft)
- 17,123 words: Sci-Fi novel (first draft, co-written)
- 2013 Yearly Total: 155,897 words
Dang, I’ve been busy.
And I bet you’ve been busy too.
When you drink your champagne tonight, drink it in honor of all the great writing you did this year. Drink in honor of your perseverance and your passion. Let the quiet work you’ve done behind your computer fuel you into 2014.
Have a happy New Year!
Source:
http://ingridsnotes.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/looking-back-at-2013/
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