yuletide wtf
Nov. 10th, 2014 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelI am doing a lot of wtfing tonight.
So, okay, Yuletide minimum length is 1k words. (Treats can be shorter, but never mind that.) And usually I write a bunch and it’s 600-800 and I go “well crap” and by the time I finish I’m usually like “must *gasp* reach *gasp* 1k *gasp*”.
So my word count for this exchange in past years has been 1022. 1052, 1162, 1820, 1099, 1035, 1105, 1135, etc. Mostly between 1000 and 1200. Almost all under 2k. I have a 2356-word story from 2009, a 2432-word story from 2006, and a 2959-word from 2005. And I haven’t written anything over 2k words since 2011.
...Today, I have written 2500 words on my current assignment. And it’s not done yet.
*blink* *blinkblink*
(also, that gives me 16k words for the month, very close to the 16670 target for where I “should” be in order to hit 50k.)
I just. What.
So, okay, Yuletide minimum length is 1k words. (Treats can be shorter, but never mind that.) And usually I write a bunch and it’s 600-800 and I go “well crap” and by the time I finish I’m usually like “must *gasp* reach *gasp* 1k *gasp*”.
So my word count for this exchange in past years has been 1022. 1052, 1162, 1820, 1099, 1035, 1105, 1135, etc. Mostly between 1000 and 1200. Almost all under 2k. I have a 2356-word story from 2009, a 2432-word story from 2006, and a 2959-word from 2005. And I haven’t written anything over 2k words since 2011.
...Today, I have written 2500 words on my current assignment. And it’s not done yet.
*blink* *blinkblink*
(also, that gives me 16k words for the month, very close to the 16670 target for where I “should” be in order to hit 50k.)
I just. What.