Written Word Counter 2023!

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Here is the new Written Word Counter for 2023!



Please start an original comment thread below using the text box shown under this paragraph. Please use the subject line: 'Your Name's Word Count 2023' (see mine for example), so that when I get the notifications, I can easily sort them! THANK YOU!

<b>Name:</b> <b>Personal goal for year:</b> <b><u>Word total for each month</u></b> <b>Jan:</b> <b>Feb:</b> <b>Mar:</b> <b>Apr:</b> <b>May:</b> <b>Jun:</b> <b>Jul:</b> <b>Aug:</b> <b>Sep:</b> <b>Oct:</b> <b>Nov:</b> <b>Dec:</b> <b>2023 total (Fill in this total on Dec 31st):</b>

We ask that in this post, you do not comment on anyone else’s comment. LJ will only let us update comments if they have no response. If you are not a current LJ user or cannot update your own information, then leave the updated information as a comment to your own comment, or contact one of the maintainers.

Count what you will. In previous years we used the theory that if you had made it available for someone else to read, such as posting a fic, submitting an assignment or sending a letter, then it was countable, but be guided by what feels like the right thing for YOU. We will not judge you or mark you down for something that may not fit this criteria.

In fact, I'm going to count all I've written, and then if I manage to post, I'll write that separately, like so: 1000 written/100 posted. As I got no posted words last year it was a bit discouraging so I feel like this will help me. ALL I ask is that if you do this, please let me know which you prefer us to count. For me, counting all I write is the only way I'll have anything to add at the end of the year! Feel free to do the same or not; it's up to you!

You can also link your writings here, if that is what you've done in the past, but this is not essential. If you do want to do this, please do it ABOVE the list of month counts, so that they stay together at the bottom of your comment. Thank you!

Update your numbers when it's convenient, whether this is the end of the month or partway through. For example, If you put '100' on Jan 14th and then go back on the 31st and update this to the month's complete total '300' (Being the 100 from the 14th, plus another 200 since), that's perfectly okay.

We will be adding the last number we see after the last day of each month into a schedule that can be updated and added to over the year, which will hopefully mean we will catch any updates on each person's count without confusion.

Good luck, everyone!

Handy tool:
word count tool for documents

Comments

Haldoor's Word Count 2023

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Name: H
Personal goal for year: 13,000 written/ANYTHING posted


Word total for each month
Jan: 518 written/none posted
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Angel's Word Count 2023

[angelus2hot]

Name: angelus2hot
Personal goal for year: All the words... as much as I can.


Word total for each month
Jan: 990 (*sigh*)
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Shanachie_quill's Word Count 2023

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

Name: Shanachie
Personal goal for year: 120K words
1. finish college (all the words for my papers)
2. write a story for Patreon every month/a blog entry every other month
3. finish novel for publication in September
4. write more of the serial which will start releasing in June


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Shanachie_quill's Word Count 2023 Updated

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

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Lizet's Word Count 2023

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

Name: Lizet
Personal goal for year: 12,000

Word total for each month
Jan: 4,000
Feb: 220
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cmk418's word count 2023

[cmk418]

Name: Cat aka cmk418
Personal goal for year: 100,000


Word total for each month
Jan: 1198
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Severina's Word Count 2023

[severina2001.livejournal.com]

Name: severina2001
Personal goal for year:
- Write 180 days
- write 50,000 words

Word total for each month
Jan: 11 days / 3213 words
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Re: Severina's Word Count 2023

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Hello, my dear! Can you update your total for 2023, please? I'd love to know if you had more words! Just reply to this comment with your total for the year - you don't have to break it down any more than that! ;-)

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Name: asphaltcowgrrl
Personal goal for year: 100,000


Word total for each month
Jan: 6,236
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itsanonyx's Word Count 2023

[itsanonyx.livejournal.com]

Name: itsanonyx
Personal goal for year: 1,200 (100 per month)


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[skargasm.livejournal.com]

Name: SK
Personal goal for year: 150,000


Word total for each month
Jan: 21,043
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[apachefirecat.livejournal.com]

Name: Apache Firecat
Personal goal for year: 1k a day each month, increasing frequency on my journal


Word total for each month
Jan: 24,690 fiction; 3,742 journal (8 days)
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[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Hello! Can you update your total for 2023, please? I'd love to know if you had more words! Just reply to this comment with your total for the year - you don't have to break it down any more than that! ;-)

flipflop_diva's Word Count 2023

[flipflop-diva.livejournal.com]

Name: Kristine | flipflop_diva
Personal goal for year:
1. Write 250,000 words
2. Write at least 100 words on 300 days
3. Write and finish a big bang
4. Work on my original novel


Word total for each month
Jan: 23 days / 11,575 words
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Re: flipflop_diva's Word Count 2023

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Hello! Can you update your total for 2023, please? I'd love to know if you had more words! Just reply to this comment with your total for the year - you don't have to break it down any more than that! ;-)

Fairyniamh's Word Count 2023

[fairyniamh]

Name: fairyniamh
Personal goal for year: As many as I can. (Words published. Daily Quotes not counted!)


Word total for each month
Jan: 3,289
Feb: 9,883
Mar: 5,366
Apr: 4,696
May: 12,982
Jun: 5,421
Jul: 3,631
Aug: 11,888
Sep: 6,170
Oct: 4,975
Nov: 7,357
Dec: 4,260
2023 total (Fill in this total on Dec 31st): 79,828

erinm_4600's Word Count 2023

[erinm-4600.livejournal.com]

Name: Erin
Personal goal for year: anything


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3am_moonlight's Word Count 2023!

[3am-moonlight.livejournal.com]

Name: 3am_moonlight
Personal goal for year: 150,000 words.

Word total for each month
Jan: 12,665
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Re: 3am_moonlight's Word Count 2023!

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Hello! Can you update your total for 2023, please? I'd love to know if you had more words! Just reply to this comment with your total for the year - you don't have to break it down any more than that! ;-)

Agdhani's Word Count 2023

[agdhani.livejournal.com]

Name: agdhani
Personal goal for year: 50k per month; 1 book published


Word total for each month
Jan: 53488
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backrose_17 Word Count 2023

[backrose-17.livejournal.com]

Name: backrose_17
Personal goal for year: 350k


Word total for each month
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helsinkibaby’s word count 2023

[helsinkibaby.livejournal.com]

Name: helsinkibaby
Personal goal for year: 100,000


Word total for each month
Jan: 5,962
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Dreamy's Word Count 2023

[thatwasjustadream (from livejournal.com)]

Jan:  0
Feb: 2,783 (jan and feb combined)
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Re: Dreamy's Word Count 2023

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

You did more than double what I did, so don't feel too bad! Here's to a good 2024 for both of us! ;-)

[goneahead]

Goneahead:
Personal goal for year: 30,000


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[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Hello! Can you update your total for 2023, please? I'd love to know if you had more words! Just reply to this comment with your total for the year - you don't have to break it down any more than that! ;-)

[kaige68.livejournal.com]

Name: Kaige
Personal goal for year: more than 1!


Word total for each month

Oct: 315
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badly_knitted's Word Count 2023

[bk_forever]

Name: badly_knitted
Personal goal for year: 250,000


Word total for each month
Jan: 28237
Feb: 25248
Mar: 31970
Apr: 29111
May: 30157
Jun: 24807
Jul: 24249
Aug: 25757
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Question

[itsanonyx.livejournal.com]

Hey, I have a question.

After checking I saw that some included words for journal entries. Does this also count for writing? I didn't get any fanfiction done so I didn't add a number for the last months 2023. But I did a lot of writing in my journal and/or in (https://your-favourites.dreamwidth.org/profile)your_favourites (https://your-favourites.dreamwidth.org/) with explaning the Challenges or posting a reason why I choose certain things when posting icons. Does this also count? If yes, then I got some words done. :D

Re: Question

[kaige68.livejournal.com]

I'm going to tell you that this is your call. Which is not that helpful.

My thought on my own writing: If I put time and intention into it, if I ran spell check and edited, if it was more than a drive by post, I would probably lean toward counting it.

What you count is up to you. If you want to keep your count as strictly fic words than we are cool with that. But if you feel that you put effort into things and feel proud of them, you are free to count it.

Hope this helps.

Word Count 2023

[kelios.livejournal.com]

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2023 total (Fill in this total on Dec 31st):69996

I forgot to come back and fill this in regularly last year, but I'll try to do better in 2024...

Re: Word Count 2023

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Thank you for adding your final number in, we appreciate it! No worries on not breaking it down more, and we look forward to seeing you more in 2024! ;-)

[bratfarrar]

2023 total: 12,556 words

...well, that's significantly better than I expected.

2023 total

[swan-secrets.livejournal.com]

total for 2023 was 9962

happy new year!

Re: 2023 total

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year! Thanks for adding your totals in! ;-)