[personal|process] Year End Summary

[jaylake]

Happy New Year, all. (At least if you're Gregorian.) Here's my obligatory year-end summary

Comments

[voluptasia]

Interesting to notice how much more LJ is getting your words than that which you publish and get paid for. =)

Best wishes for a productive and successful (whatever that means to you) 2008! =)

[jaylake]

Yes. I was just noticing the same thing, to no little irritation on my part. Grr.

And likewise to you, for 2008!

[eclectic_writer]

Dude, how'd you count all your lj posts?

Awesome output no matter what though. Here's to hoping 2008 will be even better! ;)

[jaylake]

Archived it at ljbook.com, then extracted the text from the resulting .pdf and counted it in Word. I'm going to try to reverse the ratio of LJ-to-fiction in 2008.

[kara_gnome]

Yes, a lot of lj words, but if I may...you're using your lj as a, besides other things, as a classroom. In a way, maybe this is a lot of raw material for another step in your writerly life.

Maybe you'll teach a class, if you haven't already. Maybe you'll write a how-to-write book, someday. Heck, you've got a lot of it here already, spread out over your lj :).

I mean, you can't know, at this point, how it will come in handy for your writing career. Well, okay, *if* it does, but still, it could, someday.

[jaylake]

Well, thank you. That's kind of how I see it, too. The bulk of what I post here is writing, politics or link salad. That doesn't seem like wasted time to me, really. I am a very political animal, and much of the writing talk is me working out what I think.

It's not the amount which bothers me so much as the ratio, if you take my meaning.

[kara_gnome]

Always something, it seems. I wonder if that's part of the process, too? We're writing 10,000 words a day, but X suffers, and the 10,000 words are fine, but if only X could be better!

Writing's a funny thing, really. Your blog often talks about this, and it's very true.

[lrcutter]

As always, I'm impressed (and envious!) of your word count. But I also understand that my process is different, and it's okay.

I'm always at a loss for how to count revision time. Because while the actual word count may not change, most of the words in that word count have.

I hope that next year continues to be a writing success for you.

[anonymous]

Have a great 2008, Jay!