Sun, 10 Nov 2002
I need some time out ...
Excuse the quiet around here. I just did some quick sums and worked out
how much I've written in the past year, and I'm slightly freaked:
- 80,000 words
- This blog
- 100,000 words
- Usenet miscellanea
- 100,000 words
- Email (approximate estimate)
- 120,000 words
- Magazine feature articles
- 70,000 words
- Sold short fiction (inc. 25,000 words collaboration with Cory Doctorow)
- 150,000 words
- Approximate length of first-draft material, "The Iron Sunrise" (Ace, 2004)
- 200,000 words
- Approximate length of first-draft material, "A Family Trade" (publisher TBA)
Yes, there is such a thing as too much writing, and I think
820,000 words per year is probably getting there. I've been feeling somewhat
fatigued for the past few months, and it's no surprise; so I've decided to
ease up somewhat. Buy real, old-fashioned paper newspapers instead of
reading them on the web, get out, read books, play games, have a life, and
all that sort of old-fashioned stuff. I am therefore resolved to take
today off, and maybe even the whole of next week, except for that
4000 word magazine feature that's due in on Friday, or until I get too
anxious about not having written anything recently ...
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