I don't think there's ever a such thing as too much fic. Just doesn't happen. And finding a fic by you in my inbox always puts a smile on my face, even when it isn't one I plan to read.
Even in my best year, I only wrote around 295k words, but that was spread out over a whole year. I tend to average around 150-200k. So you writing 177k in three months absolutely blows my mind! I do get the obsession, though. Wanting to top last year's count or else you don't feel like you've had a productive year. I've gotten into the habit of doing a year-end fic round-up, and it's helped me with some perspective. When I look at what I feel were my successes and failures, I tend not to stress so much about how many words I wrote, and more about the quality of those stories. I'm happiest now when I can turn out a few really good ones rather than a bunch of mediocre ones. But YMMV.
I thought I was the only one who was still obsessed with the written word--the actual hand-written as opposed to typed. Guess not. I tend to keep all my fic notes and ideas in Evernote, so it's available wherever I am on whatever device I happen to be using. But for my to-do lists and notes for work and home, I prefer a Levenger Circa notebook. Nice heavy paper stock that takes the ink well, and you can move the pages around when you need to. It's nice and compact so I can throw it in my purse at the end of the day. I can't function without it, which may be good or bad, depending on what's happening around me.
And may I just say... that man's ass should be classified as a Schedule A drug. Whoo-ee!
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Even in my best year, I only wrote around 295k words, but that was spread out over a whole year. I tend to average around 150-200k. So you writing 177k in three months absolutely blows my mind! I do get the obsession, though. Wanting to top last year's count or else you don't feel like you've had a productive year. I've gotten into the habit of doing a year-end fic round-up, and it's helped me with some perspective. When I look at what I feel were my successes and failures, I tend not to stress so much about how many words I wrote, and more about the quality of those stories. I'm happiest now when I can turn out a few really good ones rather than a bunch of mediocre ones. But YMMV.
I thought I was the only one who was still obsessed with the written word--the actual hand-written as opposed to typed. Guess not. I tend to keep all my fic notes and ideas in Evernote, so it's available wherever I am on whatever device I happen to be using. But for my to-do lists and notes for work and home, I prefer a Levenger Circa notebook. Nice heavy paper stock that takes the ink well, and you can move the pages around when you need to. It's nice and compact so I can throw it in my purse at the end of the day. I can't function without it, which may be good or bad, depending on what's happening around me.
And may I just say... that man's ass should be classified as a Schedule A drug. Whoo-ee!