I really like TCF, and I'm interested in book binding. So of course I was curious how much "book" would be needed to adapt the whole LN. I knew it was really long, so it'd take a couple big ones to include everything. Then I did some quick calculations and um. Uh. Well, here's a little math:
50k words at the minimum comfortable size and font comes out to approximately 100 pages. The average "largest" size books contains ~600 pages (at minimum size). That being said, it would kill me to read such tiny text for very long. Realistically, a comfortable font size (for me) would be 350 per page at most, so I'll be using that number moving on.
With that in mind, some of the more popular large book series like Eragon (906k total words, largest book having 280k words or 880 (803) pages) and Harry Potter (1M 84k total, largest having 257k or 870 (735) pages).
TCF has approximately 2M 150k words, 776 chapters. In part one. Ok, so... 2,150,000 words, with 1 page being ~350 words... that's 6143 pages. And if we gave each title in the series ~800 pages each, that's still 8 GIGANTIC books. TL;DR:
Eight books, 350 words per page, 800 pages each.
For reference, here's the A Song of Ice and Fire series, 1M 770k words, 4.2k pages (~400 words per page), 5 books total (~840 pages per book).
THAT'S A LOT OF BOOK.
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end of year writing wrap-up - 2022
Earlier this year I started doing monthly writing goals, along with monthly writing wrap-ups. I fell off in the fall, mainly due to feeling too busy, but I really wanted to do an end of year wrap-up nonetheless! And start again, now that it's the new year - it was a good way for me to remember what I'm working on, and to feel a bit accomplished and note progress even when I felt like I hadn't made any. This list is really entirely for myself, as a record keeping type thing.
On a fun note, this year I got really caught up in OFMD, and wrote a ton for it! Some with pals, some by myself. It's been a really fun new fandom to write for! I haven't written as much for UnDeadwood, which I'm hoping to change a bit this year (but aren't pushing myself on. Where my brain goes it goes).
So, without further ado - all the fics I've worked on this year, including word counts for each (only word counts written this year, based on best estimate, unless otherwise noted):
Completed fics:
but don't you shake alone (Leverage) - Chapters 7, 8, and epilogue posted in 2022. Word count: 15,800
full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes (OFMD). Word count: 10,200
we both go down together (OFDM). Word count: 8,900
and if the pomegranates are in bloom (OFMD). Word count: 5,200
falling for you, you are in love, put your records on (OFMD, same series). Word count: 4,900
the ghost baby (UnDeadwood). Word count: 9,500 (mostly written in 2022, can't remember how much wasn't.)
on this winter's night with you (UnDeadwood). Word count: 9,600.
Works in Progress
Our Flag Means Death
flotsam and jetsam - Word count: 3,000.
i like to call myself wound - Word count: 37,000 (posted: 29, 500.)
and we will build a home from the wreckage - Word count: 17,000 (posted: 8,000.)
ask me anything SMAU (co-written) - Prose word count: 28,000 (posted: 17,000) Written by me: ~14,000
long sad Jim/Ed (co-written) - 94,500 words. Written by me: ~ 48,000.
uposted poly au (to build a home) - Word count: ~7,000
modern Jim/Ed flowershop au - Word count 38,800
sex worker Oluwande - Word count: 12, 300
other WIPs (de-aged Jim, Olu/Jim werewolf smut, hanahaki times, selkie au, etc) - Word count 6,800.
UnDeadwood
every bit as feral - Word count total: 73,200. Word count this year: 21,500.
the jaws that bite - Word count total: ~ 35,000. This year: ~ 4,000.
witch clayton au - Word count total: 50,800. This year: ~ 19,000.
the nemesis - Total: 91,500. This year: 7,000 (maybe more, but that for sure).
firefly au - Word count total: 7,000. This year: ~ 3,500 (?)
Other tiny WIPs (olympics, hallowe'en, PS I love you au) - Huge guestimate, but maybe another 5,000 words.
So, to sum up
OFMD: 213,100 words
UnDeadwood: 79,100 words
Leverage: 15,800 words
Total 2022 word count: 308,000 words
Jesus fucking christ??? That's so many words?? I've felt a lot less productive writing-wise this year, but that might be because my 'published ao3' word count for this year is only around 135K - meanwhile I've written around 175K more words that haven't been published yet. Huh.
(This also goes to show that I really, really have a problem with writing sprawling works that I have difficulty actually finishing enough to publish lmao. Glad to see that hasn't changed XD)
Anyway, thanks to everyone who stuck around for the ride - hopefully a few of the massive unpublished works will go up in 2023!!
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I'm not gonna do a 2022 in review for my writing bc I wrote Two Things, but I did some loose math and I wrote around 166,000 words this year, half of that in just November and December. It was around 13,000 words to finish off Got The Whole Damn Nation On Their Knees in time for Courier Lucinda's August "birthday."
89,000 is from the latest version of this novel I've been working on, where I wrote about 50k in November and another 30k in December, and it'll need some major rewrites and quite a few more scenes added until it's where I'm happy. The last 62,000 words are earlier versions of the same novel, rewritten to around 20,000 words each time. Some of the bulk of both the 62k and the 89k are notes, but not most of it. Dunno when it'll be done, bc January is gonna be Carnifex Month. Maybe later next year.
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