There’s a widget for that.

I didn’t know this, but my WordPress App has a widget that tells me my total word count for this whole year. And you know what, I might have over estimated my year in my head by about 10,000-17,000 words. So far, with less than ten days left to go, I have written approximately 183,000 words worth of blog posts in 2022. Not to shabby. I imagine if I had of kept doing with the 1,600-3,000 word story posts, that number would have jumped significantly. But I didn’t so it won’t. That is beside the point. The point being, I was going to wager an educated guess of somewhere close to, possibly just under 200,000 for the one year writing challenge, and I’ve come very, very close. That’s a lot of content. That’s also a lot of written/verbal diarrhea that I’ve poured out into the interwebs. Some good, some bad, some fairly middling. I can’t complain. That’s nearly a full sized novel’s worth of writing. Go me! So glad I don’t have to guess at it, when the app widget did all the counting for me! Bonus. With something along the lines of 413 posts so far, that would have been a lot of work to track down, and reliably add up. I won’t lie, the guestimation was about as far as I was willing to take finding out. Even making 413 entries in Excel and having it count for me was going to be a tonne of work. Happy to avoid it! Yay!