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Subject: Re: No wonder my hands hurt at times!

Author:
Boyd Percy

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Date Posted: 16:52:21 11/13/13 Wed
In reply to: Wes 's message, "No wonder my hands hurt at times!" on 00:00:29 11/13/13 Wed

>I was checking posts on another board today, talking
>about the number of words posted. At the time I
>guessed I had a minimum of 3,200,000 words on
>Spearfish Lake Tales, making a conservative assumption
>of 100,000 words per book.
>
>I'm facing a big, tough, emotional chapter in the book
>I'm currently working on and didn't want to try to get
>started on it late in the evening of a work night, so
>I dug through some old records, fired up Excel, and
>added it up. Boy, was I low!
>
>Counting Stray Kitten as complete, (and not counting
>shorts, etc.) I have approximately 4,578,000 words (I
>rounded to the nearest thousand) on Spearfish Lake
>Tales, in 32 books and 1069 chapters!
>
>In addition, I have 2,120,000 words in 518 chapters of
>16 books in the pipeline at this point. That does not
>count the book I'm currently working on, or some other
>half-finished projects, and other odds and ends that
>aren't in line to be posted.
>
>Wow! No wonder my hands hurt at times!
>
>It takes approximately 600,000 words (or 156 chapters)
>to get through a year on Spearfish Lake Tales, so I
>should have figured my original guess was on the low
>side. Right at the moment, and not counting books in
>progress, the pipeline extends out to the middle of
>2017. I've done well in recent years but I'm not going
>to hit my 600k goal this year unless a miracle
>happens. I might make it to 500k, though -- I'll have
>to wait and see.
>
>I've thought for some time that if I get down to the
>point where I only have about two years headway that
>I'll have to cut back posting to only twice a week.
>But, there's no danger of that happening any time soon.
>
>-- Wes

Wes, very impressive stats! I know you have been having trouble with your counter. Any way of telling which one is your most popular? Most read? Most purchased?

I've enjoyed them all though some than others. No stinkers among them.

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Boyd Percy
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Date Posted: 16:54:48 11/13/13 Wed

>>I was checking posts on another board today, talking
>>about the number of words posted. At the time I
>>guessed I had a minimum of 3,200,000 words on
>>Spearfish Lake Tales, making a conservative assumption
>>of 100,000 words per book.
>>
>>I'm facing a big, tough, emotional chapter in the book
>>I'm currently working on and didn't want to try to get
>>started on it late in the evening of a work night, so
>>I dug through some old records, fired up Excel, and
>>added it up. Boy, was I low!
>>
>>Counting Stray Kitten as complete, (and not counting
>>shorts, etc.) I have approximately 4,578,000 words (I
>>rounded to the nearest thousand) on Spearfish Lake
>>Tales, in 32 books and 1069 chapters!
>>
>>In addition, I have 2,120,000 words in 518 chapters of
>>16 books in the pipeline at this point. That does not
>>count the book I'm currently working on, or some other
>>half-finished projects, and other odds and ends that
>>aren't in line to be posted.
>>
>>Wow! No wonder my hands hurt at times!
>>
>>It takes approximately 600,000 words (or 156 chapters)
>>to get through a year on Spearfish Lake Tales, so I
>>should have figured my original guess was on the low
>>side. Right at the moment, and not counting books in
>>progress, the pipeline extends out to the middle of
>>2017. I've done well in recent years but I'm not going
>>to hit my 600k goal this year unless a miracle
>>happens. I might make it to 500k, though -- I'll have
>>to wait and see.
>>
>>I've thought for some time that if I get down to the
>>point where I only have about two years headway that
>>I'll have to cut back posting to only twice a week.
>>But, there's no danger of that happening any time
>soon.
>>
>>-- Wes
>
>
>Wes, very impressive stats! I know you have been
>having trouble with your counter. Any way of telling
>which one is your most popular? Most read? Most
>purchased?
>
>I've enjoyed them all though some than others. No
>stinkers among them.

Sorry, I forgot my "more".