Tag: writing

a cool half mil

October 14, 2026

I’ve always wondered if I could, if I really buckled down and focused, write five hundred thousand words in a year. Turns out I can. O_O Last calendar year I did about 450K, which was by several tens of thousands my best writing year ever. But from November 2025 through April 2026, I was insanely busy, and while the months since have been less insane, they’ve still been busy enough that…well, I just cracked half a million words written since November last year. In twelve months. Under twelve months. In…

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2026: Looking Forward

January 12, 2026

…so you can guess what I’ve been doing lately… :) In actual fact I did most of this several weeks ago and it’s absolutely horrifying and every time I look at it I do in fact get stressed out. So I added up the wordcount, which… well, it’s 420K before the Heartstrike books, and having just come off a 450k year, I know I can pull off 420K. The goal is to do so in a less stressful manner than last year, and the structure for doing that is to…

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Old Races re-read

November 27, 2025

When I wasn’t writing, cooking, or sleeping at the retreat, I re-read the Old Races trilogy (affiliate link), which I started because I needed to figure out where scene breaks were in some cases because the conversion from the old epubs to the new ones isn’t always tidy. I spent so much time swearing at the copy editor, though. These books, which I’ve talked about the difficulties of writing in places that I can’t find in two seconds so am not linking to right now, had an additional difficulty to…

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back in the trenches

June 18, 2025

After 50k and then a week with a cold, I spent ALL WEEKEND asleep, my friends. ALL weekend. I went to bed early. I napped. I went to bed early even after napping. I napped MORE. I went to bed early AGAIN. At that point I really didn’t expect to sleep well, but…I did. I managed not to nap yesterday, went to bed at a reasonable hour, and was RUDELY awakened by my alarm this morning, despite imagining I might actually wake up a bit early due to all the…

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writing retreat!

June 12, 2025

This is no longer precisely up to date, because I went on retreat last month not this week, but it was written while I was on retreat and I’m finally remembering to post it, so you’re getting the live-action version of events. :) So I’ve written, uh, 48,357 words since Monday morning, and that is VERY CLOSE to 50K, and part of me VERY BADLY wants to write the other 1643 words to get there, but…I’m writing this blog post instead, honestly. I’m tired. For some reason. o.o And who…

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