At the start of each quarter I make a note of the works being carried over from the last, and how many words were added last quarter. To start this quarter, I’m bringing forward five works from last quarter at a total of 173,063 words. Of these, 41,389 were added last quarter. As part of this process, I usually take a look at what was started, progressed and completed in the previous quarter, and tally up what I ended up publishing. It helps me put things in perspective. So, last quarter I started three new works, completing two, and progressed 16 older works, of which I had to complete two and revise 14. In total, I published 13 pieces of work last quarter, totalling 250,995 words, of which 10,281 words were new, and 240,714 were revised. In addition, I created 11 new covers (two of the covers released were created in late 2012), and several black-and-white line drawings. The final thing I do is a quick average of the words produced per day. Last quarter, I produced 51,760 wo...
