On top of obsessing over big league statistics, I also kept meticulous stats on my own personal little league career. And I still have them, starting at eight years old and spanning into my adult baseball days.
I love stats.
Stats show me how I am doing. They motivate me, give me goals to shoot for. And now that I'm a writer, I've decided to start keeping stats all over again for the same purposes. But now, instead of batting averages and ERA's, I'm keeping track of Writing Time and Word Counts (WC's)
Here's what they look like:
Date
|
Wake
|
Writing Time
|
Type of Writing
|
Total(WC)
|
Daily(WC)
|
5/24/14
|
3:45am-
8:45am
|
26,647
|
|||
5/26/14
|
4:50am-7:00
|
Editing
|
|||
5/27/14
|
4:10am-7:10
|
editing
|
26,791
|
||
5/28/14
|
6am-6:35
|
editing
|
26,822
|
||
5/30/14
|
5:20am-7pm
|
Notes
|
|||
5:31/14
|
3:29am-7:20
|
plus
3 more pages of Magena’s rules
|
27,937
|
||
6/2/14
|
5:11am-7am
|
removed
magena’s rules to new folder
|
27,610
|
||
6/4/14
|
5:02am-7am
|
28,181
|
|||
6/5/14
|
5:03am-7:02am
|
28,
634
|
|||
6/6/14
|
4:57am-7:07am
|
29,028
|
|||
6/7/14
|
3:55am-6:30
|
29,565
|
|||
6/8/14
|
5:22am-7am
|
29,727
|
|||
6/9/14
|
5:42am-7am
|
Outlining
|
|||
6/10/14
|
4:40am-7:09
|
Editing
|
29,778
|
||
6/11/14
|
5:30am-6:59am
|
Editing
|
29,773
|
||
6/12/14
|
5:18am-7:15am
|
Editing
|
30,179
|
||
6/13/14
|
4:39am-7:07
|
Editing
|
30,298
|
||
6/15/14
|
6:27am-8:30
|
Editing
|
30,683
|
||
6/16/14
|
4:27am-6:48
|
Editing
|
30,850
|
||
6/18-14
|
4:52am-7:10
|
Editing/writing
|
31,366
|
||
6/19/14
|
4:22am-7:17
|
Editing
|
31,651
|
||
6/23/14
|
5:48am-7am
|
Editing
|
31,890
|
||
6/24/14
|
5:39am-6:59
|
Editing
|
31,941
|
||
6/25/14
|
5:10am-7:05
|
Outlining/writing
|
32,192
|
||
6/26/14
|
4:32am-7:06
|
Writing
|
32,847
|
||
6/27/14
|
5:28am-7/8:20-10:53
|
Writing
|
33,613
|
||
6/28-6/30
2014
|
Various
|
Wrote
at HS camp
|
33,994
|
||
7/1/14
|
5:01-6:30
|
Writing
|
34,172
|
||
7/2/14
|
5:39-7:05
|
Writing
|
34,383
|
||
7/3/14
|
4:24-6:56
|
Writing
|
35,309
|
||
7/5/14
|
10:15am-1pm
|
Editing
|
35,260
|
||
7/6/14
|
4:45am-7
|
Editing
|
35,145
|
||
7/10/14
|
4:09am-6:30
|
Outlining/writing
|
35,540
|
||
7/11/14
|
5:12am-7
|
Writing/editing
|
35,814
|
||
7/12/14
|
4:57am-7am
|
Writing/editing
|
36,151
|
||
7/13/14
|
6:10am-7am
|
Writing
|
36,387
|
||
7/15/14
|
4:00am-6:59am
|
Writing
|
37,033
|
823
|
|
7/16/14
|
3:56am-7:05am
|
Editing/writing
|
37,555
|
634
|
|
7/17/14
|
5:24am-7-10am
|
Writing
|
38,075
|
520
|
|
7/18/14
|
6:09am-6:25
|
Editing
|
38,097
|
22
|
|
7/19/14
|
4:32am-7:05am
|
Writing
|
38,726
|
629
|
|
7/23/14
|
4:52-7:05am
|
Writing/editing
|
38,979
|
374
|
|
7/24/14
|
4:35am-7:15
|
Writing
|
39,749
|
770
|
|
7/25/14
|
5:47am-7:11
|
Writing
|
39,977
|
228
|
|
7/26/14
|
4:10am-7:01
|
Writing/editing
|
40,577
|
662
|
|
7/27/14
|
5:58am-7:21
|
Writing
|
40,882
|
305
|
|
7/28/14
|
4:07am-7:05
|
Writing
|
41,583
|
826
|
|
7/29/14
|
4:30am-7:02
|
Writing
|
42,270
|
687
|
|
7/30/14
|
4:08am-6:37
|
Writing
|
43,032
|
762
|
|
7/31/14
|
5:38am-6:50
8:26am-10:58am
|
Editing/Writing
Writing
|
43,231
43,602
|
238
639
|
|
8/1/14
|
4:44am-7:16am
|
Writing/editing
|
44,201
|
615
|
|
8/2/14
|
5:30am-6:20
|
Editing
|
44,180
|
-19
|
|
8/4/14
|
4:05am-6:43
|
Editing/writing
|
44,754
|
574
|
|
8/5/14
|
4:13am-6:53
|
Writing
|
45,481
|
816
|
|
8/6/14
|
5:30am-7:00
|
Writing/editing
|
45,739
|
309
|
|
8/7/14
|
3:49am-6:59
|
Writing
|
46,509
|
770
|
|
8/8/14
|
5:03am-7:03
|
Writing
|
47,070
|
561
|
|
8/9/14
|
4:47
|
5:00am-7:13
|
Writing/
kids
|
47,606
|
594
|
8/10/14
|
6:35am-7:05
|
Plotting
|
47,615
|
9
|
|
8/11/14
|
6:05am-7:06
|
A
short story
|
|||
8/12/14
|
4:19
|
4:38am-7:04
|
Editing/Writing
|
48,146
|
531
|
8/13/14
|
5:22
|
5:33am-7:10
|
Editing
|
48,204
|
58
|
8/14/14
|
3:21
|
3:33am-6:59
|
Writing
|
49,766
|
1562
|
8/15/14
|
5:05
|
5:21am-7am
|
Writing
|
50,084
|
318
|
8/16/14
|
3:45
|
4:00am-7:32
|
Editing/Writing
|
50,413
|
329
|
8/17/14
|
5:12
|
5:27am-7:04
|
Writing
|
50,761
|
398
|
8/18/14
|
4:14
|
4:28am-7:05
|
Writing/editing
|
51,181
|
575
|
8/19/14
|
3:20
|
3:38am-7:00
|
Writing
|
51,952
|
946
|
8/20/14
|
4:11
|
4:30am-5:53
|
Plotting
|
312
|
|
8/21/14
|
4:12
|
4:30am-7:05
|
Writing/editing
|
52,289
|
394
|
8/22/14
|
4:02
|
4:18am-6:58
|
Writing
|
52,963
|
691
|
8/23/14
|
5:13
|
5:26am-6:28
|
Plotting/writing
|
53,161
|
198
|
8/24/14
|
4:28
|
4:40am-7:30
|
Writing
|
53,807
|
646
|
8/25/14
|
5:22
|
5:38am-7:09
|
Editing
|
53,827
|
20
|
8/26/14
|
5:48
|
5:54am-7:04
|
Editing
|
53,946
|
119
|
8/27/14
|
5:10
|
5:28am-6:59
|
Writing
|
54,329
|
383
|
8/28/14
|
4:57
|
5:18am-7:00
|
Writing
|
54,784
|
455
|
8/29/14
|
3:46
|
3:58am-6:58
|
Writing
|
54,453
|
543
|
8/30/14
|
4:32
|
4:52am-6:45
|
Writing
|
54773
|
624
|
8/31/14
|
4:18
|
4:35am-8:18
|
Writing
|
55,668
|
895
|
9/1/14
|
5:22
|
5:40am-7:14
|
Writing
|
56,131
|
463
|
As you can see above, I added more categories as I realized them, thus the blank spaces for "Wake Time" and "Daily WC" for the earlier dates.
Now, what do I plan to do with these stats?
I can do petty things like check out the average time it takes between waking up in the morning and getting started writing. I can look at differences between those stats in interesting ways. Does it take longer to start writing if I wake up before 4am compared to when I wake up before 5am?
Or I can check if I write better on the weekends verses weekdays.
What about more important stats, like finding out my average WCOPH (Word Count Output Per Hour) when writing for one hour verses two hours? Or verses three hours? Does my overall WCOPH increase if given a longer amount of time to write? I suspect it will. But how significant is the increase?
Or I might find that waking up before 4am actually hinders my overall WCOPH despite having extra time. Maybe extra sleep is more important. (I don't think so!)
Well, with all this talk of stats, you may be wondering . . . have I crunched the numbers yet?
No, I'm in the middle of writing a deliciously enthralling novel (my own opinion). I can only waste so much time...
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