This evening, I wrote nearly 1,900 words, and in doing so, achieved a major milestone. I have now written for 365 consecutive days. That’s one full year. The last day on which I did no writing was July 21, 2013, the day I traveled home from the Launch Pad Astronomy workshop. Since that day, I have written every day, to the tune of 344,000 words. Over the course of the last 365 days I have averaged 943 words per day. That is roughly 40 minutes of writing per day, or a grand total of about 243 hours spent writing.
On my best day in the last year, I wrote more than 5,300 words. On my worst day, I barely scratched out 70. But I have written every day.
This streak, while significant, is part of a larger effort to write every single day. Since I started on this adventure, I have now written 508 out of the last 510 days. That’s not too shabby.
The chart above shows the last 365 days. You can click it to see a larger version. It’s interesting to note a few patterns in the data. The one that jumps out at me the most is how my 7-day moving average fell during the cold winter months. Also, on 8 separate occasions, I’ve exceeded 3,000 words in a single day.
As you might expect, I’m pretty happy today!
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What were you using to keep track of the data? Evernote? Just an Excel spreadsheet? And is this across all media, fiction, fiction + blogging, Tweets?
Either way, awesome, and I’d be really curious to see my own numbers. Too bad I haven’t been keeping track. 🙂
Luther, the data is just for fiction/nonfiction writing, not blogging. I write in Google Docs and have a set of scripts that automate the collection of data. I just write and the scripts collect the data. I’ve made the scripts available on GitHub for anyone who wants to use them.
I have now written for 365 consecutive days.
Whoa! Congratulations!
Awesome. Thanks for the inspiration. I am on day 34 of write everyday and day 22 of at least 500 words a day. Both for fiction.