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The Writing Tracker and Statistics spreadsheet for 2024 is here!
What is it?
The spreadsheet is a way for writers who like statistics to track their daily wordcounts and writing habits (and also, probably, don't want to or can't pay to use software for this purpose). The idea is, once you've got the workbook set up and customised to your tastes, all you need to do is input your daily wordcount per project into one sheet and let the rest of the workbook populate from there. I originally designed this in late 2022 because I wanted a way to track my writing habits while also comparing how much original fiction VS fanfiction I wrote. It has since expanded to be more flexible, with a comparison function that's easy to adjust or scrap entirely, and a variety of other neat statistics besides. Key features include:
Line graph that displays your daily writing across the whole year.
Total word counts for each month displayed in stacked columns so you can see which projects you worked on.
Counters for your current daily writing streak and longest daily writing streak.
Pie chart to show which projects were worked on the most overall.
Ability to separate projects into "types" – i.e., personal and academic – and compare type totals each month.
Words-over-time progress charts for specific projects, with the ability to help set and track writing goals.
Daily and monthly averages.
You don't need to be a genius (or even fairly confident in using) Excel/Google Sheets to make this work for you. I've written up a detailed set of instructions that walk through each sheet and explain how to make a variety of changes, as well as breaking down how certain aspects work.
If this is something that interests you, follow the link below to my Payhip. It's a free resource; Payhip just gives you the option to leave a tip, should you feel like it and have the cash to spare.
Want to know more? Keep reading below the cut for a closer look at the features.
Daily graph to see your writing habits across the whole year at a glance:
Your top statistics: monthly and daily averages, top writing days, longest writing streak, current writing streak, and daily averages by month.
Monthly writing totals displayed in a stacked column chart so you can see which projects you worked on each month:
Clustered column graph to show one type of project compared to another, and a pie chart to show which projects you worked on most across the year:
Project-specific progress charts that show words over time, similar to the NaNoWriMo graph. (Plus, there are instructions on how to add goal lines to make it even more like the NaNoWriMo graph!)
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Nanowrimo 2023 Wrap Up...
So, I didn't make my 75k or break any personal records, but I'm really not mad about that. I don't know why I thought November was the nano event to try that in, November nano's are almost always a disaster for me. In fact, this is only the second time I've ever hit 50k in November.
But hit it, I did! Final count at 1-minute-to-midnight on November 30th was 51,841 words, which has brought my Darkling Manuscript up to 92,696. That's almost doubled the words I've written throughout the rest of 2023 which is incredible, and I'm so happy.
It also means that it looks like I'm still on track to complete the manuscript by January, which was really my main goal. All in all, I'd call this Nanowrimo a resounding success.
If you're interested in some of my other statistics, I've got some more numbers beneath the cut...
Number of Sprints in November: 132 Sprints
Time Spent Writing in November: 43 hours, 45 minutes
Estimated Remaining: 20-25k words or 7-10 Chapters.
#Writeblr#Writeblr Community#Writing#Writing Community#Darkling#Fey Touched Trilogy#Nanowrimo#Nanowrimo 2023#Self Published Author#Writing Statistics#Nanowrio Wrap Up#vampire#fey#fae#fantasy#Portal Fantasy#Reverse Portal Fantasy#contemporary fantasy#found family#romantic fantasy
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NaNoWriMo writing update
Original word count goal: 20,000
Adjusted word count goal: 15,000
Total words written during NaNoWriMo (so far): 7,969
Total words written for my wip: 49,719
Total word count goal for my wip: 80,000
Here's a writing update about my NaNoWriMo experience that nobody asked for. This will contain mostly statistics and my overall writing process. I apologize if this is very boring; I might talk more about the story of my novel in another post. Good news: I passed the 50% mark of my first draft! On the first of November, I hosted a virtual live write-in. We started off strong and had a lot of fun! Thanks to my wonderful writing family @writeblrcafe, I felt motivated to reach my word count goal. Plus, I joined @welcometowriteblr camp.
The second week of NaNoWriMo, I got bedridden sick. Sadly, I couldn't write a single word for my wip Drachenbrut. The original plan was to write 5,000 words every week. To keep myself motivated to write, I adjusted my word count goal to 15,000. University and my part-time job took a lot of time and energy out of me. I managed to squeeze in some writing sessions and concentrated on finishing one scene during one session.
Reviewing the length of my chapters, I realized they are very long in the middle of the book. In comparison, the beginning and ending chapters barely have scenes. So I restructured them and put some scenes of chapters two to four into chapter one, while still staying true to the plot. Then I added another (now empty chapter) as the second last one for all the plot points that haven't been resolved in the previous chapters. So on average, every chapter should have 10.000 words. I planned 8 chapters, so in total my book should have 80.000 words. So far, I don't know if I'll make it, but I keep telling myself:
Slow progress is still progress.
Let's be writing buddies on NaNoWriMo and motivate each other to write! I'm lexiklecksi there, too. Feel free to ramble about your NaNoWriMo experience in the comments!
#nanowrimo#writing update#writing community#nano 2023#writers on tumblr#nanowrimo 2023#word count#writing statistics
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Year End Stats
Kinda.
So, I'm a brat and want to know when notifs go out, so I'm subscribed to myself. Since Ao3's stats are... uh, not great for the yearly breakdown they supposedly have (if you post a longfic across multiple years, the stats are counted in full for both years), so I can't see how many words I wrote easily...
But I could go back through all my notification emails, add up all the words, and find out 1) how many words I posted* for each account in 2023 and 2) how many times I posted. AngelSelene_Archived is not counted in this.
Uh, disclaimer: it's a lot. Also it's "how many words I posted" and not "how many I wrote" both because I had 3 longfics I posted this year that I have had written in significant part before this year (Surviving the Fire, Wildness in His Bones, and Brutally combined had well over 100k pre-written before I started posting). Anyway, that means it's not a true "how much did I write in 2023" but it's... uh, still impressive.
Stats beneath the cut:
So... GEO readers feasted this year (not a surprise since I finished Iron and Ichor). I may not have done Nano this year--my dayjob is retail adjacent, so November's always an iffy proposition anyway--but I did have 7 (SEVEN) months where I posted over 50k, and an eighth (Feb) where I just missed it.
Dramatic drop-off in Nov-Dec, which... look, IRL was not kind from Halloween on this year. Probably 20k of what was posted in those two months were pre-written.
What was the total word count? 611,305 words posted in 2023. AngelSelene got 208k, while GEO got a whopping 403k.
So... that's a lot.
And because that's a lot, I got curious about how often I posted.
Uh, spoiler alert: it's also a lot.
In case anyone's curious, final tallies were 73 times for AS, and 118 times for GEO, for a grand total of 191 times.
Guys, statistically speaking, I posted every other day last year between the two accounts. I had no idea I had posted that much. I also have no idea why so many of my wonderful readers don't unsubscribe when they realize how much I post. 😂
The actual numbers if anyone's curious:
I do not expect this year to be this nuts (not the least of which because I don't have over 100k of longfic drafts), but I'm def still recovering from the insanity of the end of the year, and it is absolutely impacting my desire to write.
To those who signed up to go through this insanity with me--thank you. Truly. 💛💛💛💛
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2023 writing statistics
2023 totals:
highest word count: 3,673 (21st september)
favourite time: 1-1:59pm (x28)
annual total words: 55,218
total writing time: 9 days, 9 hours, 7 minutes (225 hours 7 minutes)
no. of wips as of 31/12/2023: 18
best month/s: - september, 16,757 words
- october, 67 hours 12 minutes
2022 comparisons:
highest word count: 1,679 (-1,994 than 2023)
annual total words: 33,311 (-21,907 than 2023)
total writing time: 203.5 hours (-22 hours 23 minutes than 2023)
no. of wips as of 31/12/2022: 15 (-3 than 2023)
monthly breakdowns below teehee
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unfortunately for jon snow, the role of "dead girl haunting the narrative" is already occupied by his mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, grandmother and step mother x2 so he's going to have to be forcibly resurrected :/
#1000s dead girls haunting the narrative factoid statistical error#georg rrm who writes and kills hundreds of martyrs per book is a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted#asoiaf#jon snow#winds of winter#house stark#house targaryen#asoiaf meta#asoiaf shitpost
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Question for fic writers!
#fic writers#poll#ao3#no idea what to tag this with and yes i want this to get big as much as i'll hate it bc i'm so curious#according to my statistics i have over 2k comment threads (not comments - comment threads aka comments people have left individually)#so i do not reply to all the comments on my fics unless i am currently writing it/it's a recent fic/the comment is really good
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Paper writing, statistics and coffeeee 🥰
#studyblr#studyspo#light acadamia aesthetic#light academia#dark academia#vetblr#vetmed#medblr#medschool#phd#paper writing#writing#statistics#macbook#ipadpro#ipad
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#vanitas no carte#vnc#What even are you supposed to write in rhe caption#anyway it was supposed to look completely different but uhhh gestures vaguely to 11 hours in procreate statistics#vanoé#yeah have this one i guess
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I'm doing grad student work in technical writing. I'm writing an essay about adjusting user manuals to match the reader's preferences.
Please share this poll around! This is secretly a poll about Kolb's Learning Styles. I've never seen a poll about Kolb's styles before, and I want to see which of these preferences is most common.
This is v2 of this poll. My first poll got feedback about choices not quite matching the Kolb styles. Feel free to leave feedback in the replies or tags. Thanks for your help!
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so i may or may not have printed out the entirety of @anonymousalchemist's amazing fic like a bird, like a stone onto three Very Large pieces of paper.
you might be asking, why, fay? why did you print out an entire 53k fic for a video game you've never played? well you see, if you read it, you would understand.
#bg3#tavsilkpax#for real though i'm going to do some Analysis#literary. artistic. statistical. character. all of those.#listen i can't draw and can rarely write. so my contribution to fandom is gonna be whatever weird shit my job enables me to do#and sometimes that is printing out an entire fanfiction so you can highlight names in different colours and look for Patterns#Publisher is a little bitch and tried to crash so many times while i was formatting this to print#didn't want to render a measly 54 000 words at once#astarion#tavstarion#bg3 fanfiction#i may never be free of my Silk Derangement Disorder#something about this boy just Grips me
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I saw your screenshot talking about how czech tourists are dumb, and now I'm very curious as to why? I feel like those are problems with tourists in general sometimes
we are not dumb in the way most tourists are, we are special little boys. most tourists act dumb because they don't do enough research - if they did they would reconsider. we on the other hand can do however much research we want yet we will always choose the worst course of action. not only are we underprepared and overconfident, we are underprepared and overconfident intentionally. there are no rational thoughts in our head, only ego and spite.
when we go to tatry, we understand the language of the locals (although it is silly goofy) and we do talk to them about the mountains and what to wear, where to go, but when they tell us that you need proper gear and not to stray off path, we chuckle and intentionally try to prove them wrong. silly locals! they don't know you can climb ďumbier in the winter in one day, wearing the godawful checkerboard shorts, sandals and socks and with a big tesco bag in hand. and ofc we can't forget the fanny pack of good luck. we have been to sněžka before (in the summer, went by cableway, stayed for 30 minutes), we know what mountains are like. the locals tell us that's not the same, we know nothing about actual mountains and we will die? no we won't, it's fine. there is a clearly marked path? oh but i think this way is gonna be a shortcut! there's a fence stopping us from going to the nice panorama view spot? haha fences are meant to be climbed over.
that is how tatry got the nickname "biggest czech graveyard"
you can imagine what happens when we go to the alps and don't understand the locals
(i invite every czech and every person that has experience with czech tourists to reblog and add their personal experience)
#more seriously i think it's because czechia is very... mellow in terms of it's landscape and natural conditions#we don't have proper mountains so when we go to proper mountains we suppose it's just like our little hills#we don't have sea so when we go to the sea we suppose it's just like our lakes#and we statistically have higher injure rates than other nations#honestly i might write a paper on this for school one day lol#czech
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hockey isn’t the most written about sport in fanfiction because the players are hot it’s because at the end of every single game they do this with their goalie
#like yes people find hockey players hot but the reason for the rpf is the homoeroticism of the sport and chemistry amongst players#i’m so confident about this too idc#sorry i saw a tiktok about students doing a study about what makes a player popular to write ff about and they looked at like statistics#and team popularity and stuff but it was mostly inconsistent#and then they said one of the other ppl in the class said they should have tried to look at objective hotness#which one that’s like impossible to measure and two i truly don’t think that has that much to do with it#like it’s a factor yes but it’s definitely not THE factor
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“Has anyone seen Bells?” Asked Queen Aisha of the Bloody Republic.
“The court jester?” Replied Monarch Estragon of the Everflowering Forest.
“Jest her? I hardly know her.” Quipped Aisha. Estragon groaned. “But seriously, yes, she’s gone missing and I need to find her before we all kill each other.”
Aisha paused, then added.
“And there is also a separate matter, a very serious matter, which I need to discuss with her.”
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In the parliament of royalty, comedy was no laughing matter. Every nation of the world sent their king, queen or monarch to represent them; almost nowhere else could you find such an incredible concentration of power. Whether inherited, proclaimed or elected, every royal who was worth talking about was there.
And where there were royals worth talking about, you had best believe that you would also find a jester.
And not just any jester, but *the* jester. The winner of the grand satirical tourney. The mirthster with the sharpest wit, the most dextrous contortions of mind and body, and the constitution to withstand immense pressure and inevitable poisonings.
The current jester, known only as ‘The Bells That Herald Ruin’, would often claim to be the single most important person out of all the assembled political powerhouses. Only she was not bound by the shackles of diplomacy. Only she could speak the truth in that house of lies, damned lies and hubristics.
And she was currently lying facedown in the gutter.
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“C’mon.” Queen Aisha said, lifting the bloody jester up off the floor. “It’s time to court.”
“Right, yeah…” The Bells That Herald Ruin mumbled through a mouthful of blood, whiskey and teeth, none of which she was sure were her own. “I’m the most imp’tant p’son there…y’know?”
“Oh, no. You can’t see the royals in this condition.” The Queen carefully wiped some blood off of the jester’s brow.
“You should see the other guys- demons- … fuckos.” The Bells That Herald Ruin abandoned her attempt to catergorise the entities with which she’d been brawling. She decided, instead, to concentrate on nestling as closely as possible into the crook of Queen Aisha’s shoulder.
“I could hardly miss them.” Aisha said as she stepped carefully over one of the other groaning and bloody bodies in the gutter.
“So why’d you say it’s time for court if’n we’re not going … court?”
Queen Aisha took a moment to judge the jester’s level of injury and inebriation. She bit her lip.
“I said it’s time *to* court. As in, I’m about to start courting your ass.”
“You … you would court the court jester? Double court? Court squared?”
“We’ll start with coffee, doofus. And when you’re recovered, I’ll take you out on a date.”
“I’ll wear my jangliest hat.”
“...please don’t.”
#microfiction#writing#flash fiction#short story#pun#puns#puns puns and statistics#writeblr#wtwcommunity
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Fanfiction Statistics Survey
I know the title sounds boring - but just hold on for me!
My name is Logan, I'm a psychology student and fanfic author, and recently I've found myself being curious about the general preferences of fanfic readers as a whole. I possess the ability to both gather and interpret data, and so I'm putting it to use!
The below google form contains a total of seven sections, three broad sections on general fanfic reading behaviour which should apply to everyone, one section on smut fanfiction which you should only answer if you engage with smut fanfics, and two fandom specific sections which you can skip if you are not in those fandoms (Teen Wolf and One Piece)
All data is 100% anonymous so you're encouraged to answer honestly!
All questions are also optional (aside from one - asking if you do or don't read NSFW fics) which means you can skip any question you're not sure about, don't have an answer for, or simply don't want to answer.
Once I've got some significant numbers, I'll share them here - please reblog this or share it with friends to increase the amount of data that we get from this
#teen wolf#writing#fanfic#one piece#ao3#fanfiction#wattpad#tumblr#survey#data gathering#statistics#fanfiction survey
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My stories in words and images
Project Magic
- contemporary world and fantasy world (XVIII century)
- witches, vampires, monsters
- palace intrigues
- friendships and romance
- magic and music
Project Soulmate
- fantasy world (end of the XIX century)
- fate and ancient gods
- high society world and royal intrigues
- art and science
- romance
#nat tries to write#if you'd like to see some statistics check my insta: natpisany#I've never done moodboards before#collecting inspirations yes but never this kind of collages so I hope it looks all right#what do you think#do you like the mood?#how do you like to find out what's inside the story?#through synopsis or moodboards or main points of the story like above?#or maybe you like the trope approach?
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