On Writing

Okay, this is not a blog post teaching how to write or anything like that because let’s face it, writing is an art that can’t be taught, but yes, it can be learnt.

Little funny isn’t it?

Okay back to the topic.

This is about what I’ve been writing. Summing up from the words I’ve written since April 2018, I have written approximately 50,000 words.

Aaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!

50,000 words is the average word count of a novel. 

No I’m serious. Seriously serious.

And, I have to tell this in detail.

So here we go, about 8000 words for my novelette, about 1000 words on my mystery WIP (work in progress which I hopefully will finish one day – haven’t worked on it since last September but I love the theme so there’s a great possibility that I’m going to pick it again someday, then an exact 5506 words on a story I wrote last May but I’ve mostly given up on it – sorry, okay now it’s getting boring so I’m going to leave it right there.

But a big oops, I just realised, while going through a plot I was working on this November, I just happened to read the 427 words I’d written for that and boom! I didn’t even remember the names of my beloved characters.

I don’t think I can ever fully apologise to fictional people for that. The fictional people I brought into existence and the people nobody knows about YET.

Also, now this might sound interesting, well, at least I assume it does, I also have all my ideas in one place. Unbelievable right? Why? Because most of my ideas have been scribbled away on random sheets of paper, in all my school textbooks and notebooks, phew, it was a mess. But I’ve managed to pull it all together and…..

Drum roll…

I have come to a total of 42989 words concerning just my ideas!

Yeah that’s freaking right!

42989 wordssss!!!

Okay, celebrating the end of my periodic tests, yes I’m kind of celebrating by spending majority of my time doing writing stuff, I’m organising, plotting, thinking, googling and most importantly, actually writing.

I hope for you to hear about them soon, because I can’t wait.

Honestly, the wait has been too long, but maybe just a little bit longer.

P. S. Edit: I have thought of writing a post on the art of writing but haven't done so (and will not do so) until I feel qualified enough. Because well, we're all at different stages of learning at all times are we not?