#writing stats

[infinitybetareader2]

When You Know the Story… But It Still Won’t Work

You can see it so clearly in your head. The scenes. The emotions. The moments that are supposed to hit hard.

But when you write it down… it just doesn’t feel the same.

The Problem Isn’t Your Idea

It’s frustrating because the idea is there. You are not stuck due to a lack of creativity.

You’re stuck translating something vivid into something readable.

And that gap? It can make you doubt everything.

You’re Too Close to It

You know what every line means. You know what every pause is supposed to feel like.

But readers don’t have that context. They only see what’s on the page.

So sometimes what feels powerful in your head… lands flat for someone else.

It’s Not Failure; It’s Distance

Usually, nothing is “wrong” with your writing. It just hasn’t been seen from the outside yet.

Stories need distance to breathe. They need someone who doesn’t already know what you meant.

A Quiet Reminder

If your story feels off, it doesn’t mean you’ve lost it. It usually means you’re still inside it.

And that’s a very human place to be.

[loki-is-my-kink-awakening]

Stats Sunday

June 2026

1.3k words written

10 writing sessions

40 hours spent writing and editing

10 projects worked on

7 drabbles posted for Lokius week

1 fic edited and ready to publish

Progress towards 2026 goals

None, again 😭

Starting to think I will never be able to finish these wips. Or maybe my goal needs to change. 6 months in and bare minimum progress. 💀

For The Mission will get published soon.

Fatal Frame 1 AU needs more work.

After that, my goal is to work on 1 new chapter for each of the half-published wips. If I can achieve that, I will take that as a massive win.

Not tagged by anyone for this game, but I'll tag these people if they want to share something for Seven Sentence Sunday.

@thosegayoldmen @blackbirdofasgard @elodiah @lokimobius @westwardly

@agent-birdnoises @megglesthegeek @insert-witty-user-name-here @lgwilt @cha-melodius

@boredandqueer @distracteddream @mirilyawrites @kcscribbler @in-my-loki-feels

@mobiusismycomfortcharacter @lokisleftbranch @tealdropsworld @dewdropreader @starport-seven-five

@justanotherhopelessgeek @bi-aragorn @dapandapod @jaskierswolf

[leithillustration]

Year in Review Part 1: Writing/Fandoms

Happy New Year dear friends! 

I wrote way too much (you should know by now I am rarely concise) so I've split my review into Part 1: Writing/Fandoms and Part 2: Art/Other Creative Endeavours.

Thank you to everyone who has tagged me in their 2025 recaps/reviews, including @monbons @fiend-for-culture @thewholelemon @artsyunderstudy @best--dress @nausikaaa and @prettygoododds. I've loved reading about everything you've been up to.

I've felt curious to write this post since about November. I remember how writing 2024's one really helped me get some perspective on what I'd done (instead of assuming I hadn't done anything of note at all). At the time of writing this, I've just done the outline and stats for the rest of this post and omg I actually did way more in 2025 than I thought too! I'm super proud of myself for a lot of these things and pleased to be sharing them with you (under the cut).

Original Writing

I made a big conscious effort in 2025 to make more time for my original writing. Mostly that took the form of sharing my Crowman Graphic Novel posts with tumblr for the first time. It was really scary at first, releasing a bit of the fictional universe I have lived with for over 10 years out into the world, but you guys were so loving and supportive it encouraged me to share more, meaning I also had to write/draw more in order to post (see how I tricked my brain there?)

Thank you to everyone who has engaged with my Crowman posts and given me their thoughts, questions, and encouragement. In the words of the wise @iamamythologicalcreature these interactions are to me what applause is to fairies. It's keeping me and this project alive.

🪾Some Crowman Stats:

Added 1,197 words to Crowman Part 1 prose (bringing total to 9,596) Not much at first glance, but that doesn't take on board the sheer amount of editing I've done. I've probably cut just as much as I've added, and pinpointed scenes that, as a graphic novel, need more images and less text to let the story come to the fore.

34 pages scripted! As in the ENTIRE intro to The Crowman is now ready to be translated into storyboards. This post has more info on how I did it. I find writing in long form far more intuitive, so it means having to then go back and make my prose into a script— not always an easy process, but a vital one nonetheless.

6 pages fully storyboarded plus 1.5 more sketched out, and 2 end pages encompassing a map of the location this is all set in. Important worldbuilding!!

Setting concept art complete for 2 new locations: The Elderwildes Forest and Heartstone Town. My artwork is usually character-driven, so making these settings was a personal challenge I set myself and I really love what came out of it. (Shameless self promo: prints available in my shop.)

5.9k of research/character studies that will never make the final script, but which shape the narrative and worldbuilding. I will continue to share bits and pieces of this in future tumblr posts.

Stats aren't everything, they don't truly encapsulate all the progress I've made, but they give you (and more importantly me) a rough idea that I am moving in the right direction, however slow it feels. So with that in mind, here are some more…

✒️Other Writing Stats/Achievements:

Attended my first in person writing workshop 'Writing the Witch' by poet Helen Ivory, held as part of Black Shuck Festival in Bungay, Suffolk.

Completed my first online writing prompts challenge with National Centre for Writing. (They have some great free resources worth checking out, and I've found their podcast The Writing Life really helpful too.)

Wrote 2,276 words of non-Crowman original writing (mostly encompassing a rough outline to a new fairytale I'm desperately trying not to get too distracted by).

Fandom Things

Weirdly, I've done both less and more than I thought I had. No Snowbaz fan art at all this year (shocking I know) but many illustrations of my beloved Fool, and several Snowbaz oneshots that came out of nowhere. I've also dabbled in writing for Rote, TRC, and BG3, though none of those have been published as of yet.

🧛Snowbaz Stats:

Snow On Ice (I feel I need piecharts for this) - Chapter 2, published, 11,816 words - Chapter 3, wip, ~12k - 2k of unpublished text chats (I thiiink they will make it into some chapters) - 4.5k of misc scenes written, to feature in later chapters - 4.3k of character notes/backstories that won't be included in this fic but are vital for keeping this beast on track

(For anyone keeping count, thats 22.8k of unpublished nonsense. I cannot tell you how much I am chomping at the bit to share the next chapter with you, if only I could find an ounce of focus to get it done!!!)

Pride (published, complete) 1025 words, rated T, probs my fave fic I've written this year Peanut Butter (published, complete) 1256 words, rated T (HUGE shout out to @ileadacharmedlife who did an amazing audio version of this that almost made me cry) Mermay AU outline (unpublished WIP) 1714 words Happy Accidents (unpublished WIP) 264 words Spider Mug (unpublished, complete, coming soon??) 1708 words Valentines fic top secret!!! (unpublished WIP) 1035 words

🦌Fitzloved/Rote things:

Footprints on the sill (published, complete) 957 words, rated T Persuasion fanart for my first Springfest, with this gorgeous fic by @willowjh (10k, complete, rated E) Ratsy and The Fool fanart I now sell prints of in my shop (: Fool sketch (wip) Fitzloved sketch (wip, sneak peak above because I don’t think I ever posted the colour version)

✨Other Fandoms:

Blackberries Pynch, TRC (kinda unofficially partially published WIP) 766 words Words Left Unspoken BG3 (unpublished, complete, may never see the light of day idk) 1318 words

📈Stats Summary:

44.6k overall fandom words written (this blows my mind) 15k fandom words actually published (I'm so sorry) 14k Snowbaz published (pretty neat!) 27.5k Snowbaz unpublished (ahahaha 🫠)

Stay tuned for part two, and thanks for reading ♥️ Please accept these tags as a hello and a gentle invitation to share if you would like to.

@alexalexinii , @angelsfalling16 , @argumentativeantitheticalg , @aristocratic-otter , @artsyunderstudy , @best--dress , @blackberrysummers , @bookishbroadwayandblind , @cattocavo , @cutestkilla , @eepybois , @fiend-for-culture , @iamamythologicalcreature , @jyae23 , @katatsumuli , @kidspawn , @larkral , @leofrun , @lovelyladzzzz , @monbons , @mooncello , @nausikaaa , @orange-peony , @prettygoododds , @raeny-day , @rimeswithpurple , @scribble-tier , @simon-pitch , @smoky-solitude , @that-disabled-princess , @the-beard-of-edward-teach , @theimpossibledemon , @thewholelemon , @tragediegh , @unhappytogekiss , @youarenevertooold , @you-remind-me-of-the-babe , @willowjh , @wingedaches

[abbyzwrites]

My 2025 Writing Stats

Hi everyone! This is for no one's benefit but my own but I was curious about how my writing shaped up over the course of the year and decided to do some calculations!

In 2025, I wrote nearly 500,000 words! (Thats half a million!!) 😳

This was divided across fan fiction and original works and no, I will not be doing additional math to see how many were for fanfic and how many were original because just getting to that number took far too much time lol

For my original stories, I rewrote a large section of the end of my book that I'm currently querying, and I started two new books that I've been swapping back and forth between! I'm hopeful to have at least a first full draft of a second book finished by March of this year ☺️

For fan fiction, I wrote 14 new stories (one shots and multi-chap fics), added a couple of chapters to existing stories, and wrote a HEFTY chunk of my main project, A Link to the Stars (which is now going on almost 200k words oh my goodness)

2023 was the year I started writing again for the first time in a decade, 2024 was the year I really fell in love with it, and 2025 is when I hit a really large stride and realized just how much I want this hobby to stay in my life for a veryyyy long time.

Thank you to EVERYONE who has read even a small portion of my works, I really couldn't have done it without your constant support and excitement!

Here's to another half a million in 2026!!

[not-freyja]

Words, 2/20

We are over 50k bitches!

For the second month in a row I have managed to do a full nano challenge in under a month. This is pretty awesome, actually, and I think I should be allowed to brag a little bit about that. Please picture me bragging about that.

Now, what have I been working on today? Honestly, a shit ton of editing.I have now fully revised, polished, and typo-checked chapters 4, 5, 6, and like half of chapter seven of Snare, which was a six chapter fic last week. Not sure what happened there. I also fully prepped to post Child of the Forest, which is my birthday fic for Rulie and has literally just been posted. Huzzah.

Lastly, I veered directly off of the schedule for what I am meant to be working on and instead started outlining for NaviRulie. It was established last month that pre-writing is allowed for the WIPS lower on the docket before I get to them. I am trying not to abuse this rule but I really really had faerule on the brain and wanted to get some ideas down in a way that counted as words.

All in all I managed 3,940 words today, bringing the month total to 54,585. Yes, this is still behind schedule, but we are very slowly catching up, and closing that gap.

Tomorrow I have until the early afternoon to finish editing all of Snare, because I say so. They I have real life stuff to do, so I expect to have a lot of fun and not many words.

Later!

[etoiline]

Inspired by @mikkalia. Finally got around to actually doing this.

I write mostly in a small fandom so my numbers aren't huge but honestly it doesn't matter. I enjoy writing and getting stuff out there for people to read.

I picked kudos as my metric for most popular. "feel what you do to me" stats are literally for the whole year of 2025: it was posted on New Year's Day. It's my contribution to the fascination with Bode's gloves our little fandom has.

For my favorite fic of the year, I picked "underneath this bowl of stars," which has neither the highest kudos or hits of my favorites (truly it was hard to pick just one) but it's the most self-indulgent one. Honorable mentions: scrapper, follow and chromium orange and sistrum and lute.

[megglesthegeek]

Stats Sunday

Thanks for the tag @loki-is-my-kink-awakening.

June 2026

41.7k Words Written

28 Writing days (I don't know about sessions, my writing software gave me days)

Approx 56 hours writing and editing

1 Project worked on

7 Chapters posted

Progress towards 2026 goals

I have, indeed, made progress. Goal was to do FTH and possibly 3 monthly challenges. This is the first of my 3 FTH fics, and I did a challenge in January.

Tagging @elodiah, @lokisleftbranch, @mobiusismycomfortcharacter

[lilacretrograde]

2025 was a good year! ✨

I wrote a little less this year as I was working on my master's thesis, but fanfic is the outlet that keeps me from going insane in grad school, so expect more angst from me in 2026.