I wrote HOW MANY words this year?? (Writing Wrap-Up + Sharing My 2024 Goals)
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- 2023 has been an incredible year full of writing, editing, and publishing! Today we're doing something special and fun to celebrate: a cozy, end-of-year writing wrap-up - wherein I will share EVERYTHING I've been writing this year and we'll add up all my monthly word counts to see exactly how many words I wrote in 2023. (Not gonna lie, I was pretty blown away by the answer lol) I will also be sharing some of my writing and publishing goals for 2024! So grab a cozy blanket and something warm to drink, and let's get into this special wrap-up.
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Well done, Abbie! 383,232 words--that's 1,050 words a day or 7370 words a week. Word count is important because it shows our commitment to sitting our arses in a chair and pumping out words.
I wrote almost 100,000 words this year, mostly on my novel, a couple of short stories, and a work of creative nonfiction oriented to my clients in my private counseling practice. 2024 Goals include: (1) Write consistently 5 days a week; (2) finish my novel by summer; (3) finish the non-fiction book by summer; (4) learn what is involved in publishing and self-publishing; (5) start a local writers' group in January that meets once or twice a month.
Thanks for your encouragement!
That's almost a Brandon Sanderson book.
My end of the year count ended up being 322,705, but I started in June.😅
Love you Abbie! Thank you for being such a great inspiration to all of us young writers! Hope you are enjoying your “what’s next” retreat!🥰
Congrats!! :D
@@user-wt1fn5gb1v Thank you so much!🥰
I have attempted starting a book eight times now, but always hit a brick wall around 7000 words. After being inspired to write again, I came across your channel, and it has helped me out sooo much! Structure, outline, organization, and Scrivener have freed me to write the story I want. Thanks to your help, I have written over 70,000 words in the last two months, and am well on my way to what i hope will become a great epic fantasy. I rarely make comments, very rarely, but I felt it would be an injustice to not tell you thanks... So, Thank You!
I had the same problem for a long time. I started writing when I was 12. I would start a novel and abandon it as soon as the new shiny idea came. I wrote so much and had nothing truly written.
When I was 29 I said "Enough of this." That was 3 years ago. I have written 2 bad books and started my third since then. I'm 32. How old are you? What is your story?
@@lampyrisnoctiluca9904 Hey there! Sorry I missed your reply. I'm in my mid 40s, and have only ever been "good" at writing encounters, lore, and world building for many years of D&D campaigns. Hopefully, this will change once I've finished my first book. Update: I've managed to hit a new hurdle, where I have so much written now, I have to re-read to get it all back in my head before continuing. This has led to way more editing than forward progress on the draft. Anyway, just trying to power through the best I can. Congrats on your 3 books! It's easy to be self critical. I'm sure they are better than the credit you're giving yourself. Many people fail at success before they ever give themselves the chance. Success is built upon the foundation of many failures. But, in my opinion, no project is ever a failure, just another stepping stone in the path of getting better than you were before. I'd love to hear more about your progress on your current project if you get the chance. Happy writing!
283,590 words. I finished and published Between The Darkness And The Light Book 1 and 103,149 words of Book 2 so far.
westess short stories??? to publish???????????? so excited!!! ☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀ i really didn't write a lot this year, a mix of writing blocks and busy schedules. but next year I hope to finish one manuscript of a bigger project, as well as write more short stories because they're so fun!
383232? WHAT!🤭🤔 You are a writing machine. WOW! just amazing...coupled with the volume of well-crafted instructional videos you post regularly, and this alongside the writing sprints you conduct frequently. You are beyond comprehension...Thank you for doing what you do. You Rock and the momentum and frequency get to us and we seem to grove with the vibe you create...Thank you and have a real gratifying year ending. You've earned it. Kudos to Kate too simply because you are a tag team to reckon with, YEAH!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Abbie’s end of the year videos just hit different
My end of year word count was roughly 108,905! I finished my first novel which ended up being only 66,230 words and started writing another one which I ended up abandoning because I didn't know where it was going. At the end of November I started writing my current WIP which at the moment has 23,000 words in it!
I only started writing in 2022 and you were the first person I subscribed to for writing tips. I'm so proud of myself for finishing a book in just over three months so thank you for being such an inspiration!
I keep coming back to your videos. I feel like when I watch and learn from you that I can actually accomplish something. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the work you're doing making these videos for us!! I calculated and I wrote 413.518 words this year, which is about 4 times as many as last year and 8 times as many as 2 years ago! I'm astonished... (now let's hope that at least some of it is not complete gibberish xD)
I also just wanted to say the greatest thing about Abbie’s words is that she isn’t just typing “I” into a document on repeat-she’s putting her heart and soul into each and every one of these words, giving her characters good development, internal conflict, relationships, and everything else that’s necessary for making her stories matter. So numbers aren’t always the most important, but I can guarantee that on top of having a huge quantity of words, Abbie has the best quality of words you can get, too. Go Abbie!🥹
I am kinda disappointed in myself, in the sense that I am too slow at writing my book, and that I have not done as much as I wanted. I have only done 15,000 words so far as of right now (it's intended to be a 60,000 word book), although i only started writing it in October.
I feel like I am George R.R Martin trying to complete The Wind of Winters right now.
@@unicorntomboy9736 Awh, please don’t feel disappointed!🥺Your progress is just fine, especially considering you just started in October. Just remember to stay motivated and stay inspired (one good way is by watching Abbie’s videos!) It doesn’t matter whether you write for 5 hours or 5 minutes, 5,000 words or 5 words a day, all progress is either good progress or making you better, quoth the writing queen above us.🥰
@@SydDraegon That is kind of you to say, thanks.
Brandon Sanderson is a big inspiration to me, as I think he is one of the best sci fi fantasy authors out there today. I want to be like him.
Edit: this goes without saying, but Abbie is a big inspiration too, her videos have helped so much with writing characters
I finished a short story collection, and have begun illustrating it.
Thanks for all you do for us! My writing is a bit short 😅 I finished book 6 and started book 7 of the series. My 2023 year total so far is 35,680. Not bad for basically 5 hours a day, 5 days a week. Still working full time.
Hey! Can I ask what your series is about? Is it avaliable to read anywhere?
@@Milaa9987 sci fi space along the lines of star trek. Not published yet, sorry.
@@TMscifiwrtr that’s okay! It sounds amazing!! best of luck with it
I managed to write 217,000 words last year! With a full time job and getting surgery! Also ☀️Super excited!!
This year I wrote 37,911 words in several projects including a couple abandoned manuscripts, short stories, my current project (SW fan-fic), and even a WIP screenplay! That's not a lot compared to you, but considering I'm a high-school student who often loses motivation, it's pretty good. 😅 In 2024 I really hope to up my writing game and finish my current WIP, and honestly, even though I have about 5 abandoned projects in my docs, I'm confident I'll actually finish this one because for all the other projects, I didn't know much and I didn't even plan! Finding your RUclips channel may have been the best thing to happen to me in my writing journey so far because I just looked at my first project of this past year--- the grammar is bad, there is no plot, and no good internal conflict, I didn't plan it AT ALL, and it's just a total mess! Then, comparing it to my current WIP... HOLY GUACAMOLY! 🤯 Now I know about how to properly structure my writing, I have better grammar (And just overall skills), It's planned out, and has good conflict and plot, (+enemies to lovers troupe!). Once you actually compare your old stuff to your new stuff, you can see the difference! Thanks for helping me become a better writer Abbie 🥰
Good luck Abbie on your 2024 writing goals!!!!!! My writing goals for 2024 is to write a fantasy story!!! Not sure how it will turn out but I hope its my best work yet!!!❤❤❤❤ I enjoyed being on this 2023 journey with you!!! Love you so much!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘😘😘
Currently I'm 245,845 words for drafting, and 668 pages of revisions. 3 novels. Won nanowrimo, and currently writing another novel, hoping to reach my 28K word count for this month. The Otherworld is on my Christmas list. Congrats on your writing and publishing for this year. :)
I wrote my first draft of the first book in a series this year, it's at 92k words 😊 And I've started the second book and it's at almost 35k words right now! My plans for next year is first to finish the first draft of the second book, then sink my teeth into editing the first one in the series. And to hopefully send it out to potential publishers 😁
Abbie, your videos helped me get through COVID-19, and I want to say how much I appreciate your insightful and empathetic approach to teaching writing. Cheers to 2024!
My end of the year in word count for 2023 ended up as 386,000 words. And let us just say I was really happy about the end result of the progress. I managed to write (and finish) a fanfiction set in the "How to Train Your Dragon" world (which is currently being rewritten into a more cohesive and better story). I also managed to get to the third draft of my original fantasy wolf story, which was something I never knew was coming while I continued working on it. I also worked on several other stories, mostly fanfiction and a few original which are still being worked on (I am just taking a break from them). Hopefully I can get to publish my wolf story this year, and since that is my goal for this year, I might be focusing on it from now on. Not sure if it's going to be indie or traditional. I have not decided on that yet. Let us see what 2024 brings us, my fellow writer friends.
Thank you Abbie for being such a helper and inspiration with writing. This year I wrote 65,700 words for my novel and I count I wrote 28,000 words for the outlining, world building, and character profiles for that novel. This is not including my various other WIPs. It wasn't until July that I picked my focus, my YA dystopia that keeps me going. My goal for 2024 is to finish the first draft (going to be over 100k I'm sure) and work on rewriting it. I'm sure I'll need to rewrite it at least twice. If I get a good 3rd draft by the end of the year, then I will look for alpha and beta readers or go to writing workshops. The latter might be the goal for 2025.
Well done, it sounds so cool, hopefully you complete you're goal!!!
@@user-nr1gq1wv8z Thanks!
Can you make a video about how to plan a Co-write? 💗
This video was lovely to see how far you've come. Your videos are so valuable.
My writing journey in 2023 was a pained one, mirroring the year I've had. My life has been flip flopping. But we move on. I wrote a lot, I have no idea how many words but it doesn't matter really.
I have two books I'm writing side by side, with two shorter ones that I work on when I need a change.
One is romance, the other is science fiction/fantasy. I'm hoping that I'll finish the romance first. I'm in the stages of finalizing the first draft and padding it out and adding more depth, and I'm enjoying it. Both books are at about 90,000 to 100,000 words.
There's still a long road ahead and to combat that I gotta stop beating myself up because I'm slow, sometimes life gets in the way. ❤
Much love to all, and I wish you the very best writing in 2024.
10:01 caught me off-guard 😂. Thanks for your help this year, abbie
No fairrrrr you can’t tease about Westess short stories and not have them available now 😭 😂 so excited to read those and the anticipation for all these limited editions and the CW series is highhh 2024 is gonna be such a great year!!!!
I'm negligent with my first book. I need to rebuild my writer mind. I'm divided because I'm an artist, and I hold myself several times instead of doing what I need to fulfill my goals. But I believe that I wrote a lot and all thanks to your playlists and videos that helped me a lot with immersive writing. I'll try to write every day from now on. Merry Christmas ! Hope you'll have an amazing end and beginning of the year. Blankets and hot chocolate are not the best choices right now. Here my Christmas is in summer. Brazil 🇧🇷. But I started to drink tea together with my writings too. It's a really nice and cozy practice that I enjoy. ☺️🤗✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️
I wrote a novel, and 5 short stories during 2023, coming in at 62,468 words in total. Not much, but I wrote my fourth novel, and I'm happy with the progress I made as a writer.
This is really amazing! I wish I was able to write as many as you do. I am a student and I tend not to have alot of time😕.
This is amazing, Abbie! I have gotten 287,229 so far, but I really just started back up again in June.😅
Congratulations on your accomplishment! We are so proud of how far you have come and we hope that you will keep your creative passion for the remainder of your author career!🥳
We love you and thank you so much for making such great, inspirational content! Happy new year and enjoy your little retreat thingy you always do!🥰
I’m so excited for the short stories! I started my first ever writing project this year on September 21, and I’m 53k words in! Thank you for all your videos!
I wrote 25k words this year but it's the most I've ever written from a book ever so I'm very proud of myself for accomplishing that + I finally managed to crack this story I've been trying to write since 2015, so even though the first draft is not ready yet, I have the whole structure done and that feels sooo good
Love this video!! I can’t wait for your future books in the upcoming years. Especially your co write series. And for my writing this year I haven’t been writing all that much. But just recently I came with the idea of writing a short story collection. I’m so excited about it because not only I’m trying short stories for the first time but also because it will taken place in the present day. Which I would never thought of doing. And I also can’t wait for your short stories as well!!! 😊❤️❤️✍️📕💛💛💛🌞🌞🌞
OH MY LORD YES I NEED THOSE WESTESS STORIES AND THE NONFICTION BOOK !!! Can’t wait for 2024!!
My goals, well, aren’t really concrete yet, but I am aiming to grow my author brand online, publish two more booklets, and work on my fantasy series (hopefully I can get it published in 2025 👀), ooh I should pick up and edit that historical thriller I wrote last nano (2022)… probably more but those are my plans for now!
Rock on Abbie! You’re a legend ❤
~Lia Nicole
I am excited to read those short stories! 😁
I gave your book Tessa and Weston: The best Christmas ever to my sister for Christmas this year. After sneakily reading it all myself ;) and she Loves it her nose is literally glued to the pages! Thanks you for writing such fun and Homely books Reading Tessa and Weston best Christmas ever was like you'd captured the essence of Pinterest aesthetic Christmas photos and bottled it into word format with a brilliant backstory! As well as compelling inner conflict
Cannot wait for the special editions!! 🎉❤🤩🤩
Love your videos
Way to go, Abbie!! You are truly my inspiration!
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Yay! I'm so excited to read those short stories. I loved 100 days of sunlight and the sequel too🌞 Wish both you and Kate all the best, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎄
Such lovely vibes in this video!⭐️ I’m so excited for the new year, thank you Abbie for everything!
❤😊❤😊 Cheers to 2024!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 I'll definitely be on the look out for your Writer's Guidebook.
☀️☀️☀️☀️!!
also, I love your little Christmas tree! it matches your aesthetic so well, lol!
Yay!!!! WessTess, love love love!!
Your videos are so lighthearted and inspiring that I wanted to thank you for all you do.
As for my progress the meager number of words wrote would embarrass me so I will skip that and jump to what I see as a giant stepping stone for me. So in 2023 I wrote an excerpt (and most of a novella) for a specific publisher and IP and submitted this for the potential of being selected. This is the first querie I have ever submitted. Additionally, after a couple decades of on and off writing and not making much progress after outlining several stories and loading interest after all the tedious planning, I read a book that led to my discovery of writing ‘into the dark’ or ‘pantsing’ that made so much sense for me and made me realize my planning stage was too detailed and removed the joy of writing the story because I already saw the story in my head. Finally, from the first querie submitted, I received my first rejection letter🎉… which was very generic and not helpful as to what could be improved. Anyway, even with what appears to be failures in my writing, even stumbles are forward progress. With those out of the way my 2024 will be spent on my own IP characters and stories. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years and Rock On!🤘
Thank you so much for everything you do and share with this community! You are such an inspiration and I’m so grateful for you!
Have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Abbie! 💖🎄🎆
Such a winner Abby! Love the productivity! Very inspirational. Merry Christmas! 🎄
That’s awesome. Well done and thanks for the detailed breakdown 👍
Love it. That's a lot of words! I've been working on my novel for 6 years though I know I haven't the talent to actually finish it, so I just plod along and do the best I can just for fun. I've estimated to have written 1.35 million HAND WRITTEN words or about 225K words/yr. avg. I don't type and typing is painfully frustrating and causes me to stop writing. I'd rather keep handwriting than getting continuously frustrated. I'm here for the fun, not the frustration. So I'll be happy continuing this project into the future. Hope your writing goes well.
I currently try to write 300 words a day, 4 days a week. I am currently working on a dark fantasy novel with the core theme being corruption
Can you have multiple thematic questions you intend to explore in your narrative? I hope you can do another video on writing themes in your writing.
The first, and most prominent question being: 'Do traumatic experiences justify morally questionable actions, or do they challenge the notion of right and wrong?' My protagonist (the pov character for the book) is on the side of yes to that question, wherea my supporting character (the childhood friend and love interest, in essence a Captain America type character, who is a paragon of good) takes the opposite stance
Thanks for sharing, Abbie! You are so encouraging and inspiring. I always enjoy your videos and your write with me live streams. All the best this Christmas season and into the new year! 🎉
I haven't written much in 2023 because I am back to school since the fall of 2022. I wrote more for school than I did on my book, short stories and poems combined. There is so much to study and that is stressful. I hope the growth in job prospects resulting from having a master's degree would be worth the struggle.
After the brain fry in the school, very often I am only capable of scrolling and listening to audiobooks. In 2023 I did not count the words, unlike the 4 years before. I should now start counting them again as soon as the exams are over...
My writing goals for 2024:
-Finish my first draft manuscript for my book into thd dark
-Stay motivated and inspired with into the dark
-Write fun small stories :)
So awesome! I haven’t kept a word count going but I’ve been working on my first fiction novel, and editing my flash fiction. Excited to do my own what’s next retreat! Your training was helpful ❤ Have a Merry Christmas!!
I'm literally wrapping Christmas presents atm. Thank you for your work, Abby, your videos have really helped me out of my writer's block this year. Hopefully I can write even more this 2024. Merry Christmas everybody ❤
Thanks for being such a great and inspiring writing coach. I feel like watching your vids gave me a new perspective when it comes to writing, because you have an eye for the small but important thinks in a book. I am working on a fantasy series right now and you did not just give me the courage to spread my (mostly crazy) ideas, but also made me capable of analyzing other books, films, anime etc. As it should be in a book, it feels like your lessons transformed me into a better, and more effectively working person, than I began this amazing journey. Sometimes it feels like as if I was the protagonist of the story. Merry Christmas everyone!
Hi Abbie,
I wanted to extend a huge thank you for your videos. I stumbled upon one around July/August and got hooked on your newbie guide to writing, and have been following you since. I began my first draft not long after and I haven't looked back, and only in a few short months I've completed my draft 1.5 (my initial draft was a bit of a trainwreck...). After ordering the 'writing bible' you recommended, my writing journey truly took off.
Now I'm itching to begin revising, which I plan to dive into after Christmas. Looking back, it's amazing to see i've written roughly 230,000 words, including my scrapped first draft, the improved 1.5 draft, and numerous side stories.
I truly appreciate the dedication and work you are doing, in inspiring aspiring authors like myself. I hope you're taking some well deserved R&R over the holidays.
Thank you again, and I wish you a merry and joyful Christmas!
Abbie that is amazing!!
This year I wrote the first draft to my novel and I am so excited to start editing it and making it better! And hopefully in 2024 I will send it to publishers. I can't thank you enough Abbie, because of this channel I have grown so much as a writer in such a short period of time, which is insane, but of course awesome!
You have given me a huge boost this year in writing. I had never done NaNoWr and taking part of it just by doing word count was a huge step, and keeping to my own goals for that Nov month. It really helped me to be focused and to keep focused even after the Nov Nano. I have no idea my year word count but I do know it is way more than it has previous years. You have given me the drive to keep writing as I often hit ruts, and pitfalls and at times want to throw in the towel. But you keep me on task, keep me focused and driven to fight and work for my dreams. Thank you Abbie for an amazing year. I hope you and Kate and your family have an amazing Christmas and wonderful New Year. Be safe and stay warm.
I love your channel. I wrote and published 3 books this year (which was a busy) and now you have me curious how much I’ve written!
Good afternoon, Abbie and enjoyed watching this last video of the year. I've written a book this year, the first draft, while also in the process of editing a book I wrote last year as well. And started creating a children's coloring book, which I'm still working on and a children's story book about a fox. I also wrote a short story which was published in an online magazine, but I left it because it wasn't what I thought. My word count for the book of this year: 37,248 words and the one I'm editing is at 17,798 words as of right now which is over 50,000 words that I wrote last year.
Anyway, have a wonderful day and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I have wrote many short stories and by short I mean short. I felt like I couldn't do anything more than that and was feeling a little hopeless. I wasn't sure if I was good enough to write a novel and was starting to give up. But once I found this channel I started feeling hopeful and excited. I haven't wrote a lot this year because I just started a couple months ago but I am finally starting to achieve my dream of being an author and a novelist! These videos have helped me so much and made me excited when I write instead of stressed! Thank you so much Abbie and I can't wait to read your other books! I loved 100 days of sunlight and Tessa and Weston! I have been wanting to read the Other World so that's what I am wanting for my birthday! I wish all of you young writers like me(I'm 12) hope and to not think about if its good enough but the joy it gives you! Good Luck!!!!
How great, Abbie! My biggest achievements in writing this year were revising and editing a novel I had written in 2021 (I hope I get to publish it next year) and writing 24 of 30 chapters of the first book of a Fantasy trilogy I'm in love with!!! Therefore, one of my first goals for 2024 is finishing that first draft, and then trying to complete another project I had begun and abandoned a few years ago. Happy Holidays!!!
Thanks abbie❤❤
☀️☀️☀️ for one of my favorite books ever!!!!
Hi abbie your books are so amazing and I love how they come out especially 100 days of sunlight 💛 all your books are do amazing and they have helme through my wriand editing journey thank you for your courage
Fun video Abbie!! I only worked on 2 projects, but much progress was made: finishing book 1 and starting book 2 of my precious baby trilogy. I’m so proud of my progress. Your videos have really helped me get a huge idea focused and under control, and I love your work.
I’m going to have my own What’s Next retreat this year, to plan my work for next year. I hope to finish Book 2, edit Book 1, and start Book 3.
Happy holidays! Looking forward to seeing you again in 2024 ❤ Rock on!
I love your idea that word count isn't as important as it seems. Being passionate about writing is more important... and an impressive word count is a side product of that.
i just got your book '100 days of sunlight' for Christmas and already finished it, I just couldn't put it down. 100% gonna get more of your books in the future, and your advice of this channel has helped me soo much. thank you!
Just getting started with my author journey thank you for keeping me inspired as I write while I am working overnights. Not sure where the next year is going, but can't wait to see where it leads.
The Other World is kind of out of my reading comfort zone but the nautical lighthouse setting sounds so cool!
Congrats girl. This year I was able to publish two kid books and working on a novel. Still getting a handle of this writing things. Looking forward to the next year. 🎉
Congratulation's Abbie! You are such and inspiration to me as a young writer. I'm up to my 5th chapter and I would've never come this far without your help! xxLouise
It's funny that I decided I wanted to start writing in 2022... and now we're almost in 2024. Your videos have motivated me to keep going. 😊
I'm not sure about word counts, because I don't keep track. But I did finish the first draft of the book idea that started this all---which needs so much editing. I'm also part of the way through a fantasy/dystopian enemies to lovers sort of book---I need to regroup on this one too. And then, I decided that I'd try NaNoWriMo this year and tried my hand at contemporary. I love the story but NaNoWiMo exhausted me so I'm taking a writing break for a bit.
Overall, very proud of what I've done, and I only hope the writing I did was actually good.
i had gcse exams this year so pretty much until July i had barely written anything, and then in two weeks at the end of July i wrote a 100,000 word novel which was pretty crazy!!!! then i wrote a second novel in a month and a half, which was 150,000! i then wrote a couple short stories and poems in september and october, edited a novel in november and i'm writing a cute christmas spin off rn!! we're at 30,000 words so far for it! hope to be done by january :)
Congrats Abbie!🎉🎉 Even if I didn't write as much, I realized some really important things. At the beginning of the year, I thought, I knew how to write books, but then the truth dawned on me. I have watched some of your videos, but not as seriously. In April I watched the 3 Act Story Structure series and then realized how bad my planning was. I dropped everything and started again. But then I realized I forced myself to be quick. So, in the summer, all through the 3 months I studied your writing videos, cuz I wasn't gonna give up. But then, another mistake...I waited for Preptober and didn't immediately start writing, making it less riveting and making me not want to write it. But, now armed with all this knowledge, I'm ready for 2024.
I still can't believe, I started watching your videos this year...This is the first time (as long as I can remember) that I didn't break out in tears. Cuz I'm that kind of person, that starts crying if they can't do something on the first try. Really toxic, I know...But the amount of help I got from this channel, from You! It's actually crazy! November was a really stressful month and I haven't touched my brain dump folder in 2-3 MONTHS now, which is really sad. I thank all my successes of 2023 to two people: Firstly, You Abbie, cuz I wouldn't have been able to learn so much without your help. And My Past Self, for not giving up, not even in THE MOST stressful month of the year and to still continue writing, regarding the obstacles. Thank you again Abbie!💛💛💛
Been scouring videos for more information on the series 😂 happy something will come out this year 🥰 seems like a lot of work to write a series then release all at once that’s pretty smart too ❤❤❤ I just bought the other world excited to see everything else 🎉
Omg I can’t wait for cw1 to come out
Dear Abbie, wow. Congrats to this ammount of words.
Hey abbie! It is so impressive that you wrote that Many words, your videos are inspiring for me, as a young writer i cant even write 30 words in a Page, go abbie girl!♡ :)🌅
Thanks good luck to you as well.
I have written 95,088 words!!!!! And that's not counting what I have written in this notebook app that I have and what I've written in my regular notebooks 📒❤
Happy Holidays Abbie anf Kate!! 🎉🎉🎉
( first like to your comment ) I prefer to say Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
@@Friendship1nmillion I too prefer to say Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
When it comes to my writing endeavors of 2023, I really didn't get as far as I would've liked. This year- particularly at the end - was incredibly hectic with my cat needing a pretty major surgery and then acquiring money for that procedure, so writing was forced into a back seat. I think I ended up with less than 100k across two projects, probably somewhere around 50-60k total. I did get a good amount of outlining done with my cyberpunk trilogy, as that is my primary project as of now. I started with an urban fantasy LitRPG-esque thing that I was working on back in 2022 when I really started writing, but that was more pantsing and after a while into it I wasn't liking how it was going anymore so I put that aside and started outlining and planning out projects more, which seems to work better for me.
I won't lie, 2023 was a bit of a roller coaster in the worst ways possible, and I'm excited for it to be over. I haven't made formal goals of any kind for 2024 yet, though I do plan on spending time this weekend to ponder that in depth. I think one of my big takeaways from my failings this year was I had too many goals I was pursuing at once. I had goals in reading, writing, personal fitness, and even some competitive endeavors with E-sports. I spread myself a bit too thin trying to manage them all at once and quickly got overwhelmed. So, I'll probably shoot for a smaller list of goals (maybe two or three specific things total instead of twelve like this year) and go from there. Small, obtainable things I can do daily without issue, even if things go sideways part way through the year.
Though it would be nice to finally say I finish a draft...
I started writing 5 months ago, one short story a week, and I've written roughly 40,000 words. I'm proud of myself, and you should be proud of yourself to.
Writers - like everybody else, we have a dream (cringy reference) And we should be so proud of ourselves for actively working towards it. ❤
1st Jan today...decided that I am finally going to write that novel...was lookin for some inspiration on RUclips...found you...glad I did...thinking about getting Scrivener but I feel I need something more...like some sort of guiding hand to assist with the daily writing process...maybe a course of some sort...discipline is such a failing of mine...however I got to get this sorted...
My plan is two books a year Abbie.
I'm hoping by the end of next year, I'll at least be ready to send out some queries.... but I have many other projects I want to look into. besides editing, id like to draft a screenplay for a movie, fully draft another completely new novel, and work on my bookish social medias now. I started posting on my own RUclips channel, TikTok, and insta more and would love to continue to do that just for a year to see where it will take me :)
Amazing! Well done! 🎉 In recent years, do you always finish a project once you've started it or do you get bored/decided it's not worth continuing? And how many projects do you work on at once? My brain is very "all or nothing" and I prefer working on one project at a time 😊
I finished my NaNoWriMo project this week. 59,100 words. I'm going to read the whole thing and see where it's weakest, then set it aside to ponder before starting revisions.
I am SO PUMPED for all your future books and the series with Kate! I have a hard time finding modern fiction that isn't super adult in a way that makes me uncomfortable so I love being able to follow your journey and read your stories since they're pretty good for all ages!
Are they? I heard the otherworld has a lot of profanity in it, but I can't find the content guide for it to check
@@aliesefitch1099 they do but it's only sexual content I'm trying to avoid
@@carmenalmonte6991 My dark fantasy novel I am currently working on has quite a bit of that sort of content, including a prominent lovemaking scene in the latter half of the book between the protagonist and her love interest
@@carmenalmonte6991 oh both her debut and the otherworld have a lot of swearing? How much? If you don't mind my asking since I can't find the info anywhere else 😂 I don't mind some, but I don't like a ton
@@aliesefitch1099 well I'd say 100 Days has more than the Otherworld but it's not a lot constantly you know? Like for example, you'll have a character say a bad word maybe twice on one page but not again for another 10 pages or so, as far as I remember
Oh god everyone here's got more that 100,000 and i'm sitting here at 65,000!! Hoping to publish my sci-fi novel by august-september 2024, and rewrite another novella which i scrapped.
As a student and a writter I think I had wrote more than that.
I wrote 58k finished words of the first half of the third book of my Harry Potter fanfic series. This one is called Harry Potter and the Desolate Boughs. Then I recorded, edited and posted the audiobook version here on RUclips.Then I got Covid. Since then, I have also written 46k draft words of the second half of the same book - all in the last two months. I have, of course, also written the notes I needed to write the story.
So, that's the equivalent of approaching 100k finished (revised and edited) words, despite two bouts of Covid. Illness lost me about two and a half months.
Goals for next year are to finish and publish this current book (and its audio version), then start my next project: an original fantasy story of my very own!
I only wrote like 23,000 words, but I have school and I only started in June. I'm writing a series and it was going to be 4 books, now we're at 15, and I've only written 3...
Let's go, Abs
When are you both publishing the co up series?
I finished my first novelette part of a trilogy I'm working on, it should be released early 2024. I am currently writing the second part to it.
My 2023 final word count: 279,138. Not nearly as impressive as yours, but slightly over my yearly average of 200,000 words per year.
2023 projects (codenamed because I'm weird):
January: Project MISSILE, Prewriting
February-June: Project MISSILE, First Draft
July: Project BIRA, Third Draft
August-September: Project CROWN, Second Draft
October-November: Project MACHINE, Second Draft
December: Desperately needed rest
2024 projects (timelines TBD):
- Project MACHINE (beta readers)
- Project MISSILE, Second Draft
- Project MACHINE, Third Draft
- Project MACHINE (professional editors)
- Project MISSILE (beta readers)
- Project EYES, prewriting
- Project MACHINE, final proofread and publication
- Project EYES, First Draft (if MACHINE published)
Latter two may be early 2025. Projects BIRA and CROWN have been shelved due to unresolvable quality control issues.
Abbie, in the 2nd half of 2023 I was on a roll drafting my 2nd book Legend of the White Croc, then I read someone's review😱😭 in Goodreads on my 1st book Escape from Bussorah Street, after which I stopped working on my 2nd book😭
☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ I Love Abbie! Lol