Sunday, January 1, 2017
My Writing Stats for 2016
Written by Kodi Wolf at 1:19 AM
December turned out to be a lot like July. For the first two weeks, my word count was really low. I only averaged about 397 words per day, but that was due to being on drugs while I passed a couple kidney stones. Once I got off the meds, my average word count more than doubled to about 871 words per day, and that was even with the holidays and finally getting to the cleaning I'd wanted to do last December, but which ended up not happening because I got sick instead (and no, I didn't get to it the whole rest of the year... I was busy writing).
My total word count for December was 20,364, which averages out to 657 words per day. My lowest words per day was 13 and my highest was 2,138.
Looking back, this year has been amazing. I can't believe I've been able to maintain my writing streak, which I started back on January 9 of last year. Here's an updated look at my calendar for 2016.
My corkboard with my writing calendar. You can also see my favorite inspirational note I wrote for myself in 2013 and the black knife (called a karambit) that I bought as inspiration for a much later scene in A Bondage Primer. And the little scroll piece in the corner says, "Once Upon a Time..."
(Full-size image)
My main goal for this year is to have every day marked with a green 'X' by the end of the year. I don't know if I'll be able to do it, since I know health stuff derailed me last year, but I'm going to try.
Anyway, for posterity's sake, I wanted to note some of my statistics for 2016.
| Writing Stats for 2016 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Words/Month | Daily Average | Highest Day | Lowest Day | Hours/Month | Words/Hour | |||||||
| Jan | 15,474 | 673 (23 days) | 1,026 | 506 (or 0) | ? (est. 62h 6m) | ? (est. 249) | ||||||
| Feb | 20,339 | 701 | 1,337 | 509 | 18h 56m | 1,074 | ||||||
| Mar | 20,090 | 648 | 2,169 | 146 | 32h 26m | 619 | ||||||
| Apr | 16,181 | 539 | 1,626 | 12 | 25h 2m | 646 | ||||||
| May | 20,338 | 656 | 3,870 | 23 | 46h 2m | 442 | ||||||
| Jun | 25,538 | 851 | 5,073 | 34 | 63h 0m | 405 | ||||||
| Jul | 44,922 | 1,449 | 6,169 | 1 | 162h 37m | 276 | ||||||
| Aug | 57,791 | 1,864 | 4,743 | 143 | 197h 18m | 293 | ||||||
| Sep | 26,253 | 875 | 3,059 | 22 | 95h 4m | 276 | ||||||
| Oct | 38,910 | 1,255 | 3,811 | 154 | 105h 44m | 368 | ||||||
| Nov | 33,381 | 1,113 | 5,512 | 214 | 102h 17m | 326 | ||||||
| Dec | 20,364 | 657 | 2,138 | 13 | 56h 54m | 358 | ||||||
| Writing Totals & Averages for 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Words | 339,581 | |||
| Monthly Average | 28,298 | |||
| Daily Average | 928 (or 948*) | |||
| Total Hours | 905h 20m (or 967h 26m**) | |||
| Average Words/Hour | 358 (or 351†) | |||
* The first number is averaged across the entire year (366 days), but you get the second number if you subtract the first 8 days I didn't write.
** The first number doesn't include January, since I only tracked words that month, but if you average the time out for the rest of the year, it works out to about 2h 42m every day with no weekends off. So then if you take that average and apply it to the 23 days in January I did write, it changes the estimated total time to the second number.
† The first number doesn't include January, since I wasn't tracking time that month, but if you use the average above, it changes the estimated total to the second number.
So there's my writing year in a nutshell.
Here's to having just as awesome a year in 2017.
Happy New Year, everyone. :)