Out of curiosity, I checked to see how many blogs I’d written in 2009. Only ninety-eight, including this one. That’s an average of one every three or four days, certainly down from when I started over five years ago.
For the month of January, my son Keith, several other people, and I have each committed to write a 50,000 word novel. This will be a challenge for me, since I’ve become accustomed to writing for the blog space. You know, ten minutes to write, less time to read.
It’s true I often take more than ten minutes to write a blog, but I’m sure none of them is 1667 words long, which is the amount of writing you have to do each day, weekends included, to finish a 50,000 word novel in a month.
Again curiosity struck. How many words have I blogged? The answer, thanks to that Microsoft tool called Word Count, is 306,976. How many words is War and Peace?
Well, the Russian version is approximately 460,000; and the English version is approximately 560,000. I’ve already written two other books, both over 50,000 words; so I guess it’s fair to say I’m as prolific as Tolstoy. Oh, I can’t say that . . . he wrote more than one mega-book. In longhand as well.
Regardless, I’m starting 2010 by hunting for a sustainable plot, fleshing out a protagonist and an antagonist, and keyboarding away. This means 2010 will probably get off to a slow start on the blogging front.
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