2020: Words

Have a lot of things to say about 2020, but let's start on a positive note: writing.

I wrote over 459,000 words in 2020. (1)

that's an average of over 1200 words per day. just under 8700 words per week. this includes fanfic (64%), original fiction (5%), paid work writing (22%), and 'paid' fanfic writing for commissions / Patreon / zines (8%).

i averaged about 5500 words per week of fanfic. that's like, a decent one-shot every single week. certainly didn't see that in the output, but that's because fuckin' everything i write has to be ridiculously long.

out of this year's 290,933 words of fanfiction, 164,535 of them were Old Vines (56%). the rest went into a smattering of works and a bunch of things that haven't been posted yet.

i wrote just about 1800 words per week for pay, which tracks. it isn't solid income, but it counts.

i'm not going to get into the paid / commissions issue here, but i do want to point out that the portion of fanfic words i made this year that indirectly gave me money was only 8% of all of my annual writing, which seems fair.

there were only 3 weeks this year where i wrote absolutely 0 words at all, and one of those is a september week (see 1). My record for words written in one day is just over 8000. There were 149 days this year where I wrote nothing (41%) and 217 days where I did (59%). 217 days of writing means that if i sat down to write on any given day, i would put out an average of 2100 words.

so what does this mean? well first, it means a big fat ol' congratulations to me because this is more words than ive ever written ever in my entire damn life.

( and then... )