2025 is well under way already, and it's perhaps a bit late to start looking back at the previous year and how I fared. But, well... it's been a stressful January, and it's only really now that I've had both the time and energy to reflect on 2024. The obvious place to start is probably … Continue reading 2024 – My Year in Writing and Reading
Category: Data
Deliberate Practice – July Stats
Already with one day left of the month, July proved to be my best month yet in regards to getting down practice hours. I ended averaging 3.57 hours a day (my previous best was 3.42). The practice consisted of 15 hours of writing exercises, almost 19 hours of writing stories, more than 73 hours of … Continue reading Deliberate Practice – July Stats
Training Stats – June
It seems I've gotten the hang on the quantitative bit of my practice. June proved my best month yet with more than 102 hours of fiction writing practice. I spent more than 69.5 hours reading, more than an hour visualizing stories, and just about 32 hours spent on doing writing exercises or writing stories. However, … Continue reading Training Stats – June
Practice Stats – May
So the stats from May are in, and it turned out to be my best month yet as seen on the graph below. I managed an average of 3.09 hours of practice a day, barely beating the 3.02 hours from March. It came about with just above 5.5 hours of writing exercises, 16.8 hours of … Continue reading Practice Stats – May
April’s Stats
The data is in from the past month, and it looks good. I managed to practice my fiction writing skills for almost 3 hours a day, which is the target. 2.9 hours to be specific. So just under the target and a little worse than March, but still far better than what I've generally been … Continue reading April’s Stats
Updated Reading List for 2018
You can find the original post from the start of February here. Deadpool – The Complete Collection by Daniel Way: I actually liked the humor of the Deadpool movie and a friend off mine convinced me to try the comics too. I have to be honest though, the compilation I bought at least wasn’t really … Continue reading Updated Reading List for 2018
February Stats – 2018
So the stats for February are in, and they're a mixed bag of nuts. Well, actually the stats are quite nice aside from one point -- the amount of time I wasted. In fact the month was going along quite splendidly until I was out with some friends one Friday night, having a few beers. … Continue reading February Stats – 2018
January Practicing Stats – Now with Graphs
So January was the month were I finally got started on doing my writing exercises again after NaNoWriMo, the Christmas holidays, and moving into our new house. It was also was the month were I finally managed to get three hours of deliberate practice pressed into one day. And I did that three days in … Continue reading January Practicing Stats – Now with Graphs
December Stats
All right, so I've been away for while and it's more than due time for another set of writing stats. This time for December, the month where I finally managed to finish of my NaNoWriMo novella, which means all of my writing time was spend on story writing instead of doing exercises. December was also … Continue reading December Stats
Stat Update
I've been so busy with NaNoWriMo lately that I haven't really been updating the blog. Well, it's time to fix that. Though, it'll be a short update. In my last stat update I'd reported on spending just above 33 hours on what I consider deliberate writing practice during a three week period. Now it's been … Continue reading Stat Update
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