Curious...

[prosodic]

I want to perform a little experiment.

I want to take all the writing I do in one day without thinking about it - blog posts, emails, FB status updates, tweets, etc. - and keep track of the word counts for a few days.

I would be curious to take those numbers and then estimate how long it would take for that word count to accumulate into a book length project. It might make a project of that size seem much less daunting. Because if I already write x number of words per day just for the hell of it, imagine what I can do if I really put my mind to it.

Just a thought.

Comments

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Here's another thought that may or may not prove helpful, but it proved to be an extremely helpful comment for me when lekythen pointed it out to me a few years ago:

Try writing a book like you're having a conversation.

That's the boiled-down version. She told me that part of the book of mine she was reading had a narrative almost like I was engaged in a conversation with the reader...that it matched the style of my LJ posts at the time...and part of the book was more formal, more "literary". She vastly preferred the conversation style, and over the years I've had much more luck selling in that style (including my so-far one published book) than "literary".

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

Well, the memoir I started writing about my years in Germany are very conversational like that, I think. That's just the style I feel more comfortable with writing.

[vereorc.livejournal.com]

I like this idea! And hey, when (not if) you publish your book, I'll be one of the first in line to buy it.

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

Thank you for saying that. Sometimes, I really doubt myself because I feel like such a small fish in a huge pond. But life in general is like that, isn't it?