I’ve been working on a novel, a contemporary romance that I dreamed up last year. I keep a log of various things about writing the novel that I thought I’d share here on my blog, for other data-lovers to see. I know I could do so much more, but I tend to get distracted easily and my writing stamina is embarassingly low. It’s something I want to work on as I grow as a writer!
Words written per day / Total words / Hours worked:
2/10: 575 (575) (Day 1)
2/11: 2,311 (2,886)
2/12: 1,300 (4,186)
2/13: 608 (4,794)
2/14: 1,115 (5,909) (Day 5)
2/15: 974 (6,883)
2/16: 649 (7,532)
2/17: 868 (8,400)
2/18: 1,660 (10,060)
2/19: 2,285 (12,333) 2.3 hours worked (Day 10)
2/20: 1,972 (14,305) 3.1 hours
2/21: 135 (14,440) 0.5 hours
2/22: 2,000 (16,440) 3.2 hours
2/23: 775 (17,215) 1.2 hours
2/24: 115 (17,330) 0.1 hours (Day 15)
2/25: 1,225 (18,555) 1.4 hours
2/28: 770 (19,325) 1 hour
3/1: 2,000 (21,325) 2 hours
3/2: 1,707 (23,032) 2 hours
3/3: 1,500 (24,532) 1.7 hours (Day 20)
3/4: 488 (25,020) 0.8 hours
3/6: 121 (25,141) 0.1 hours
3/7: 271 (25,412) .3 hours
3/9: 38 (25,450)
3/11: 605 (26,055) .6 hours (Day 25)
3/12: 1,140 (27,195) 1.2 hours
3/13: 385 (27,510) .4 hours
3/14: 1,025 (28,535) 1.1 hours
3/15: 1,000 (29,535) .8 hours
3/20: 329 (29,864) .7 hours (Day 30) (so far for today)
Average words written per “working day” / avg words written per day total (including days I did not write):
995 / 765
Okay, yeah, those averages are pretty bad, and I know I could do a lot better! I think putting my numbers up here for the world to see might be a good kick in the butt to improve my productivity! Oh, that reminds me, those average words written per day are just for that novel, not including the short stories I also might be working on, on any given day. So, with all my writing included, it looks a little bit better. But still, I could be getting more words down in my novel!