I've reviewed my writing productivity spreadsheet for 2015, which includes all writing-related word output and other work by week. So in weeks when I don't write any words, I write in the notes column what else I have been doing – edits and promotion for X novel – for instance.
Here's what I found out:
Do you record your writing productivity in a spreadsheet? Or do you just go with the flow?
If you'd like a copy of the spreadsheet I use, you can download it in this link.
Until next time,
Liam Livings xx
PS: because it's dark, cold and January, a selection of pictures I took in 2015.
Here's what I found out:
- My writing productivity, as in simply new words I've written, ranged from 0 words in some weeks when I was on holiday without my laptop or was armpits deep in an edit of a contracted novel – to 27357 words in a week when I wrote 22294 words on the novel, Love U More and 5063 words on blog posts – a combination of Liam Livings blogs about various topics and some promo blog for Escaping From Him. That's a pretty epic word count if I do say so myself. There's no way I'd be able to keep that up week in week out, even if I didn't have a day job, but I seem to work best with bursts of writing, interspersed with periods of no writing.
- My average word count per week altogether was 7545 words per week
- My average fiction word count per week was 5368 words per week
- There was a gap of 12 weeks when I wrote no new fiction words, because I had a series of edits / promo / marketing work contracted to complete by deadlines.
- There was only 1800 words recorded as 'planning' which makes sense because I tend to plot and brainstorm ideas pencil and paper, which I don't count words for
- In addition, I wrote my journal every day which also works out at about 80,000 words, but I've not included these in my total, although technically, they are still writing a story – of my day – even if it's not fiction
- 72193 words of blog writing is quite a lot really. Most of this is promo blogs for contracted books – interviews, the story behind the story etc, and some is my own opinion pieces on my Liam Livings blog.
- 38258 words for 'other' including beta reading, free-writing and reports for the RNA's New Writers Scheme
- There were 5 weeks when I wrote 0 words in total (across all categories). In these weeks I was doing edits, on holiday, doing proof reading of my contracted stories, or doing tax return stuff among other things
Do you record your writing productivity in a spreadsheet? Or do you just go with the flow?
If you'd like a copy of the spreadsheet I use, you can download it in this link.
Until next time,
Liam Livings xx
PS: because it's dark, cold and January, a selection of pictures I took in 2015.
Rhubarb clafoutis - a sweet batter around the fruit.
The plot of Love U More my story about clubbing in the nineties in London and Ibiza. I *love* my Post It notes!
A knickerbocker glory at my favourite glitzy Essex restaurant. This, despite the amazing sea food, is always the best part of the meal for me!
Spring flowers in the town where I live. Not in my garden, courtesy of the local council, but something to brighten your January!
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