The Big One-Zero-Zero · 6:03pm Jun 16th, 2016
Whoa.
So I just counted, and Monday's Being a Better Writer post? The one about writing warfare?
That was my 100th Being a Better Writer post. As in one, zero, zero.
I'm honestly shocked. I knew I'd written a lot of these things, but 100? I feel like I should be looking around corners for some sort of surprise for myself. 100 posts ... that's a lot of work. Even going off of the average post size (which seems to hover around 2,000 words), that's 200,000 words worth of content over the last two years! That's the length of my current draft of Shadow of an Empire. If I were to collect all the BaBW posts into a single, ordinarily clad book, with no frills, that means it would be at least 600 pages long. And let's be honest, when I do get around to that it's going to be longer so there's room for notes, extra examples, and the like. Oh, and probably split into several books.
100 BaBW posts. It happened surprisingly quickly. Maybe I should look into a long side-bar listing each and every one of them.
So here's to 100 more. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. To those of you who've read, learned from, and enjoyed them, you're going to see many more coming in the future.
The only thing that's bugging me now is looking back, I can't pick a favorite.
Here's to the future, guys. Here's to another 100 BaBW posts, more books, and more fun.
Grats on making it to 100!
May I someday write as much fiction as you've written blogposts.
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Just keep at it. Every day write a little, and then a little more! It adds up!
I'll say it again, you could compile these into a book of it's own.
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I actually have plans to. Spiral bound, with space for notes in the margins, cross references, expanded content or examples, and an index, among other things.
Thing is, that's a massive project, so I'm not sure when I'll actually sit down and make it happen. Also, at this rate, it'd more likely end up being two books as to not kill the binding or weight.
It's a "someday" project. I know there's an audience for that (several readers have written to tell me they've printed out each one as I post it and put them in a three-ring binder), it's just finding the time.
One-hundred BaBW posts!?
I knew you had written a lot of BaBW posts, but one-hundred?
Congrats! I've enjoyed your BaBW posts and will continue to enjoy them in the future. (I would be happy to buy them as a physical book should you write it)