WEDAY Stats - August
Aug. 31st, 2011 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hwrnmnbsolWord Count: 57668. It's amazing to me that, unless I make a real effort to constrain how much I write, I inevitably write about the same amount in a month. I'm not trying to write a certain number of words, and I don't even count it up until the end of the month so I have no idea where I stand as I go. I seem to want to average about 1900 words a night, although that goes over 2000 if I don't factor in the 100 word stories I throw in there when I'm too busy to write a lot.
I still have a lot of ideas, but I don't like them as much. Some days I come out of the morning shower saying, yep, I know what I want to write. But other days I think all day and have a couple of meh ideas, and when I reach 10PM and I have to start writing or miss the deadline, it comes down to picking the least sucky idea and running with it. It's disheartening to write on something you're not really excited about writing. But that, too, is probably an important lesson in writing better. You can't always be jazzed about writing. But you can suck it up and write anyway.
This month I had something I wrote go viral. The Michele Bachmann bit caused a significant spike in my traffic. On Facebook, 366 people linked to it, of whom only 11 are on my friendslist. There was also a certain amount of interest on Twitter and Reddit. It's a strange feeling to have people come and look in my blog based on one thing. I feel like there is a somewhat diffuse character to the things I write here, and while I think that things I write are recognizable as belonging within that group, I don't feel that any one entry is representative of the whole. As a result, I am concerned that some people came to read that one thing, snooped around to see what else was in here, and found themselves saying 'ecch'.
I liked a number of the things I wrote this month, especially some of the medium length bits, including Abandon All Hope and the CNN Science Report. I also liked the letter I wrote to my daughter's teacher. I find myself disappointed in the way 1001 Nights came out, which will teach me to break my promise to myself and go back to read the things I wrote. I can't afford to psyche myself out by second-guessing what I already wrote and posted. Must keep blinders on.
Thanks for everybody's support and interest; the encouragement really keeps me going.
I still have a lot of ideas, but I don't like them as much. Some days I come out of the morning shower saying, yep, I know what I want to write. But other days I think all day and have a couple of meh ideas, and when I reach 10PM and I have to start writing or miss the deadline, it comes down to picking the least sucky idea and running with it. It's disheartening to write on something you're not really excited about writing. But that, too, is probably an important lesson in writing better. You can't always be jazzed about writing. But you can suck it up and write anyway.
This month I had something I wrote go viral. The Michele Bachmann bit caused a significant spike in my traffic. On Facebook, 366 people linked to it, of whom only 11 are on my friendslist. There was also a certain amount of interest on Twitter and Reddit. It's a strange feeling to have people come and look in my blog based on one thing. I feel like there is a somewhat diffuse character to the things I write here, and while I think that things I write are recognizable as belonging within that group, I don't feel that any one entry is representative of the whole. As a result, I am concerned that some people came to read that one thing, snooped around to see what else was in here, and found themselves saying 'ecch'.
I liked a number of the things I wrote this month, especially some of the medium length bits, including Abandon All Hope and the CNN Science Report. I also liked the letter I wrote to my daughter's teacher. I find myself disappointed in the way 1001 Nights came out, which will teach me to break my promise to myself and go back to read the things I wrote. I can't afford to psyche myself out by second-guessing what I already wrote and posted. Must keep blinders on.
Thanks for everybody's support and interest; the encouragement really keeps me going.
