Comments on: 600,000 words https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/600000-words/ Writer, Author, Speaker Fri, 20 May 2022 14:40:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Elisabeth https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/600000-words/#comment-352442 Fri, 20 May 2022 14:40:53 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18578#comment-352442 In reply to Laura Vanderkam.

Thanks, Laura! As you know, your TBT project was a major kick in the butt for me to just “do it already.” After wanting to blog for a decade I realized it was silly to not move forward. Even if I fall off the blogging bandwagon eventually, I’ll forever be grateful for the motivation your work provided toward actualizing a dream!

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/600000-words/#comment-352406 Fri, 20 May 2022 12:59:37 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18578#comment-352406 In reply to Laura.

@Laura – I just saw that! I created an episode so I’m not sure where it went in the great publishing internet world. I’ve sent a note to iHeartMedia to try to find it…

]]> By: Laura https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/600000-words/#comment-352236 Fri, 20 May 2022 01:12:27 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18578#comment-352236 I have been recently found the Before Breakfast podcast and habe been enjoying it every morning while I prepare my coffe and toast. Did anything happen yesterday? No episode shows up for Wednesday.

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/600000-words/#comment-351854 Thu, 19 May 2022 01:29:51 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18578#comment-351854 In reply to Linda.

@Linda- oh wow! Thank you for reading all those words. Yep, the family has changed since then. We are a big kid home in some ways, though the 2-year-old is keeping us all in the trenches of toddler life!

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/600000-words/#comment-351853 Thu, 19 May 2022 01:27:57 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18578#comment-351853 In reply to Maggie.

@Maggie – thank you for listening! And reading. I’ll do my best to get something written!

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/600000-words/#comment-351852 Thu, 19 May 2022 01:27:36 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18578#comment-351852 In reply to Elisabeth.

@Elisabeth – it is a lot of words! And congrats on a year of blogging!

]]> By: Linda https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/600000-words/#comment-351850 Thu, 19 May 2022 00:35:04 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18578#comment-351850 And I think I’ve read every blog post since 2010 after reading your interview on Gretchen Rubin’s blog and discovering 168 Hours. You only had 2 kids then and still lived in NYC. I feel like I’ve watched your family grow up.

]]> By: Maggie https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/600000-words/#comment-351765 Wed, 18 May 2022 19:55:22 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18578#comment-351765 And I think I listened to all those episodes!
After reading your first novel, I would be really glad to be able to read another work of fiction by you.

]]> By: Elisabeth https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/600000-words/#comment-351748 Wed, 18 May 2022 19:03:17 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18578#comment-351748 It is incredible how words add up.

In exactly one year of blogging (usually 5x/week), I had a word count of 247,791 words. Which, for comparison (though I’m in no way comparing my non-fiction blogging with the craft required to produce these fictional epics!):
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone = 77,325
Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix = 257,154
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe = 38,421
The Fellowship of the Ring = 187,790

So…slightly less than the longest Harry Potter book, but about 6.5 The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

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