August 27, 2010 -

Writing Odyssey: Lessons Learned

jdsawyer Career / Creativity / Idle Musings / Writing August 27, 2010 September 13, 2017 3 Comments

If you want the background for this post, check The Binge post for a description of my recent unintentional astronomical word count adventure. Short version: I wrote one hundred twenty three thousand words in fifty days. Yow. So, you may ask, what did I learn from writing 123k words in …

Writing Odyssey: The Binge

jdsawyer Career / Creativity / Writing August 27, 2010 August 27, 2010 One Comment

By the time I finish writing this article, I’ll have written 123,000 words in fifty days. The output constitutes two short-book-length works (one novel, one reference work), nine blog posts, two commissioned articles, and some odds and ends of work on another novel. For the first half of the duration, …