Half Million

[tychoish]

So soon, probably during the end of this post or somewhere in tomorrow’s post, I’m going to pass the half-million word mark on tychoish.com. This is a bit inflated because I incorporated the posts from tealart a couple of years ago, and some of that material includes quotes and links that I don’t think should count toward the site’s word count odometer. But there you have it, and in any case this is a milestone, that’s worth commemorating.

There’s a quote out there along the lines of “everyone has a million words of crap in them before they get to the good stuff.” If we count the writing I do here, this means I’m getting close. If we count blog posts and academic writing, I think I’m probably well into the “good stuff.” I suppose some of that is up to you.

I wrote a “journal”-type post about myself and what I was up to beyond what I blog about here (and a few of my posts since then have veered in that direction, alas). While these used to be the “easy posts” that I would just sort of blather out a year ago, 1 I don’t feel like I miss them.

I’m doing well. I have a lot on my plate, and a lot of “loose ends” floating around that are causing some stress, but I really can’t complain. Just for grins the things I’m working on right now:

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  Fiction Writing
  
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    Station Keeping, Season 2 (about 5 thousand more words to go).
    
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    The Novel, (half done, 4-5 more months till first draft; leaving 3 months for rewrites, and a podcast launch in August.)
    
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    Trailing Edge. (Hibernating. 3k more words, and then scores of edits).
    
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  Open Source Research
  
  I’m working on turning the research project that’s been sort of sputtering along into something more coherent on a number of different levels. I’m not ready to announce this exactly but it involves:
  
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    Writing lots of emails. Lots of emails.
    
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    Turn a fairly linear paper into a wiki.
    
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    Collect a more complete bibliography file.
    
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  Website things
  
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    Get Critical Futures back on track.
    
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    Tychoish.com Redesign project. Not to mention writing for the site like I do.
    
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    Something for the open source project described above.
    
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  Life things
  
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    I probably have half a dozen small/midsized trips this year. Knitting things, dancing things, work things, science fiction things. That’s a lot of stress there.
    
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    I’m going to be moving this summer.
    
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    For someone who views himself as being a shut-in mostly, I do a lot of stuff “out:” dancing 3 times a week, singing from time to time, and so forth.
    
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  Knitting things
  
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    The grandmother shawl, plus two other lace shawls in progress.
    
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    My starm*re cable sweater. I’m 20% done with it. That’s not very much.
    
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    The color-work sweater that just needs another sleeve.
    

So that’s what’s on my plate. I really need to start knocking this stuff out.

Will this blog be around in another half million words? I figure that that means that I’d have to keep up doing this for another three or three and a half years, at my current rate. It could happen. It could definitely happen.

I’ll see you on the other side.

Notes:

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   It was a dark time. I’m better now. Mostly.  ↩
   

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