{"id":41858,"date":"2018-02-11T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=41858"},"modified":"2019-08-07T04:35:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T08:35:16","slug":"how-many-words-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=41858","title":{"rendered":"How Many Words 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last spring I decided to measure my overall output<\/a> on this site. Now that we’ve wrapped up 2017 I thought I’d update the charts and see how things went last year.<\/p>\n

As a reminder of how this works: WordPress doesn’t have a wordcount feature. So to get the number of words I write in a year I get a character count and divide by 6.6, which I determined to be my average word length. These charts only include my material, and not any of my distinguished<\/a> guests<\/a>. These charts are based on calendar years, not financial years or anything crazy like that. Read the original post<\/a> if you want all the details.<\/p>\n

Anyway, let’s get to the charts…
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Charts!<\/h3>\n

Words per year.<\/div>
Words per year.<\/div><\/p>\n

Technically, I wrote a lot more words in 2017 than I did in 2016. The problem is, they don’t show up on this chart. I wrote a 130k word book that will hopefully come out sometime this year. It’s still in the editing process. I realize that doesn’t actually do anything for those of you that just come here looking for blog posts, but I’m still happy with my 2017 output.<\/p>\n

Posts per year.<\/div>
Posts per year.<\/div><\/p>\n

This dramatic drop in posts is due to the fact that Spoiler Warning left the site last April<\/a>. I’m no longer writing little 300 word essays three times a week to go under the video posts. Instead, that time is going into more of my long-form stuff, which I assume is what most people are here for.<\/p>\n

Also, I’m no longer posting weekly show notes to go with the Diecast. That show went on hiatus when I split with the other creators. The rest of the team went on to make the Spodcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The good news is that I might be starting up the Diecast again. A friend and I have been batting the idea around. I don’t have a date planned or anything. We’ll see where it goes.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Have questions for the show? Email me: diecast -at- shamusyoung.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At any rate, that’s about four fewer posts a week. I don’t imagine that’s going to change anytime soon. I’m focusing on long-form stuff these days, which means three posts a week is going to continue to be the norm. From this we can predict that 2018 will end up with just over 150 posts. (Again, I’m ignoring the contributions of the other writers. I’m not saying they’re not important, I’m just being careful to not take credit for their hard work. If they post and I don’t, I still see it as a personal failure, even if you still got something good to read.)<\/p>\n

Post length by year.<\/div>
Post length by year.<\/div><\/p>\n

And here we see the average length (in words) of posts. That spike in 2017 is because I’m no longer pulling the average down with short Spoiler Warning and Diecast posts. For the record, my usual target for an article is between 1,500 and 2,500 words. However, I do short, silly posts on Sunday (for example: The one you’re reading right now) and those are usually under 500 words.<\/p>\n

Anyway. That’s what I managed to accomplish in 2017. Onward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last spring I decided to measure my overall output on this site. Now that we’ve wrapped up 2017 I thought I’d update the charts and see how things went last year. As a reminder of how this works: WordPress doesn’t have a wordcount feature. So to get the number of words I write in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[610],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landmarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41858"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47690,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41858\/revisions\/47690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}