Sunday, January 15, 2012

Opus 5000

This is my 5,000th post.  As you well know, it's hard to get me to shut up.

For a while, I was tracking things like how many words I wrote a month.  The average was about 25,000, in around 120 posts each month.  If that still holds (and it sort of feels like it's in the ballpark), then I've probably written a little over a million words here.


Well, it seemed like a cunning plan at the time.

10 comments:

  1. Congratulations! Looking forward to the next million!! :-)

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  2. You should write a book, boss. The "official" length of a novel starts at 50k to 80k, depending on who you ask, and in some genres 100k is a common length. So you've written 10 to 20 books in your career here.

    But I don't want to wait a year to read what you've written, so if you want to keep on blogging, please do.

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  3. Of all the blogs I know of and visit, there's less than five that I visit "religiously" - or even compulsively - every day. Yours is one.

    Congrats!

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  4. Thanks, all.

    Dave H, I thought about collecting some of this, polishing the rough edges, and putting it out in an eBook. Then I found out that that would be real work. ;-)

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  5. It's so nice to see my blogbrother succeed and make something wonderful out of his blog!!

    Congrats Borepatch :)

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  6. BP: "Then I found out that that would be real work."

    But it pays! SF author John Scalzi has published a book of collected blog posts, and I paid real money for it. (Okay, I tried to collect all the posts from his blog directly first, but when that turned out to be too much work I ponied up for it.)

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  7. Congratulations, Ted. That's a lot of free ice cream. :)

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  8. You think it's something, but you keep using the same words over and over. All these pronouns and articles, you think they should count?

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