500,000 is a satisfying number

[starfishstar]

Every now and then, I eye my total word count on AO3 (AO3 is so excellent and user-friendly in the way it shows stats!) and think about what a satisfying milestone it's going to be when I hit 500,000 words. 500,000 words – that's like 10 novels, if you count in NaNoWriMo terms! (Yes, NaNo sets their word target at the low end of what can be considered a novel...but still.) Right now my fics on AO3 add up to about 489,000 words, so it's very much within striking distance.

Then I realized: I already have way, way more than those remaining 11,000 words sitting right here on my desktop. Between three different complete-but-not-yet-posted fics (one that's finished and I just sent off to Holmestice, one I just got back from its beta and will be doing final revisions on before posting, and one that I want to do another read-through of before it too needs to find a beta but it's definitely a complete story) I have about another 55,000 words sitting right here, nearly ready for the world. (Eep...another novel's worth??)

I'm way over 500,000 and I didn't even realize. (But it's still going to be awesome when that number is there in black and white on AO3.)  :-)

Comments

[nerakrose]

Congrats! Half a million words and more is a great achievement :D

(You got me curious so I went and checked my own stats, and with some extra math for stuff not on there etc. I've realised I've written appr. 700k words since 2006... now obv I want to make it to 1000k!)

[starfishstar]

Sweet, yes, you should go for a million words!! That is an amazing goal and an extremely satisfying number. :-)

And true, I suppose there are other things I've written during the same period that aren't reflected on AO3 (e.g., original fiction: it's some, though not a huge amount – since the bulk of my original writing lies much further back in my past...and hopefully also in the future?) So this number is just fic, since I started writing fic in...2011 or late 2010, I think?

[nerakrose]

I will not shut up about it when I make that goal :D

But it's still impressive! Absolutely something to be proud of. :)