De-blog

In 2018, I wrote 214,592 words. :) That's not a bad total word count for the year, but it's my lowest since 2012, and the six years since are in almost perfect negative correlation with the output of Beaten Track Publishing. That's an achievement, of course. I love my job. However, with that realisation comes the closest I'm getting to a New Year's resolution: in 2019, I'll spend less time on publishing and more on writing. That brings my writing career total to 3,214,424 words (!) , consisting of: 25 novels 12 novellas 12 short stories several works in progress In case you missed any…with links… Deb's books published in 2018 Print/eBooks: Oh No She Didn't! (Slice of Life/Women's Fiction - in Upstaged ) What a Scorcher!  (Slice of Life/Women's Fiction - HBTC Free Flash Fiction) Tabula Rasa   (Crime/Romance/Slice of Life - Gray Fisher 2) The Great Village Bun Fight  (Slice of Life/Humour Novella) Goth of Christmas P...

Well, I planned to hit a milestone before the end of 2017, and I thought I’d missed it (damn you, Deb, and your rubbish record-keeping), but in the process of writing this blog post, I discovered I didn’t miss it at all. Hurrah! What am I talking about? This… 3,003,924 …is how many words I’ve clocked up since I started writing ‘for real’. Which is rather good, as I was aiming to hit three million, and I did. However…my annual word count has dwindled over the past four years: 2001: 105,342 2003: 8,600 2005: 1,062 2007: 111,813 2008: 122,414 2009: 66,735 2010: 52,771 2011: 101,820 2012: 183,373 2013: 515,840 2014: 486,425 2015: 474,692 2016: 399,912 2017: 373,125 😞 New Year, New Me? Hahahahaha. No. If  I was the kind of person to make New Year resolutions (which I’m not—you can set a goal  any time you like.  Pretty radical, huh?), I’d be setting one to hit 400k words in 2018. Last Words of Last Year… Anyway, here were the last w...