Wrote a chapter I wasn’t expecting which led to a complication I wasn’t expecting which only makes the book better. Even as a planner, I still leave room for story surprises.

WORDS WRITTEN: 5899

HOURS SPENT WRITING: 11.5

WORDS/HOUR: 513.0

In the middle of a novel … words/hour coming pretty fast. Just need to put in more hours …

WORDS WRITTEN: 1363

HOURS SPENT WRITING: 2.6

WORDS/HOUR: 524.2

I fell off the writing every day wagon … and it shows. I’m off to improve this month’s stats!

WORDS WRITTEN: 945

HOURS SPENT WRITING: 2.9

WORDS/HOUR: 325.9

And April’s stats were somewhat better … I think it’s a lot easier to do more words/hour when I’m working on a novel.

WORDS WRITTEN: 2170

HOURS SPENT WRITING: 6.7

WORDS/HOUR: 323.9

As you might guess by the date on this blog post, writing has been going slowly. The upside: next month’s stats almost have to be better!

WORDS WRITTEN: 973

HOURS SPENT WRITING: 4.2

WORDS/HOUR: 231.7

Finished editing one short story and finished two chapters in the novel … but it was still a slow month.  How was your February?

WORDS WRITTEN: 2135

HOURS SPENT WRITING: 8.5

WORDS/HOUR: 251.2

This was a month of editing: totally rewrote one story and started a simpler revision on a second.  Editing drove my words/hours down, but I did achieve the mythical hour a day on average, although I didn’t quite succeed at writing every day.  How was your January?

WORDS WRITTEN: 4371

HOURS SPENT WRITING: 32

WORDS/HOUR: 136.6

Words/hour was way up this month; I think that was due to writing a novel instead of short stories.  I was doing a good job keeping up my writing streak until Christmas hit.  I’m ready to start a new streak with the new year!  How about you?

WORDS WRITTEN: 4823

HOURS SPENT WRITING: 12

WORDS/HOUR: 401.9

Although I did not participate in NaNoWriMo, I did start a new novel and write two and a half chapters this month.  I’m pretty pleased with my stats, where I wrote every day, averaged more than an hour a day, and wrote at a pace that suggests I could write a novel a year. 

WORDS WRITTEN: 8489

HOURS SPENT WRITING: 33.1

WORDS/HOUR: 256.5

I finished the first draft of the story I started last month and started editing it.  I had hoped to be finished editing it by now; hopefully that will be done today.

WORDS WRITTEN: 2860

HOURS SPENT WRITING: 11.7

WORDS/HOUR: 244.4