I'm curious to know, in the last year (or in a typical year if this last year has been different) how much writing have you done? Do you tend to write a short story a year, or a novel a year, or three chapters? Within a year, do you tend to complete these works or portions thereof, plus revisions? Or do you spend a year writing and then leave the revisions for next year, or until the novel is finished?
I know everyone will differ, depending on work/family/school/other obligations, writing speed and stamina, level of obsession with rewriting, etc. But I'm curious to know what's realistic to accomplish in a year of devoted writing. And I'd love to inspire my productivity by those of you who get a lot done!
My goal is about 1700-2000 words a day and for quite a while I was putting out about that much. I've kind of lapsed lately though for various reasons, notetaking and depression chief among them.
My output always varies. I do know it's more than a short story or three chapters a year. My chapters are about 20-30kb on average and my goal is about 10kb a day, so somebody else can do the math as to how many chapters a year that equals.
Completion, too, varies. Seeing as I write serials, there's no way I can complete a story with well over a hundred chapters in one year, though I don't do revisions either so the chapters themselves are basically "completed."
With short stories/novellas, I can complete those more quickly of course, though at times I'll stop work on one and it'll go on hiatus for months or years. It might take me a few years to finish a novella but that doesn't mean it took a few years to
write it--I just took very long breaks in between writing.
You know, I just remembered I keep a writing log, duhr! That details all the writing I've been doing for the past couple of years at least. But of course, there would be no point in posting that thing here in its entirety.
Yet that's where it tells exactly how much I've been writing. Too bad I can't figure a way to, well, figure it out, mathematically speaking. *shrug*