For the love of numbers

And so a year has passed. A year since my big coming out. And what a year it has been:

• 43 posts
• 80 comments (including my responses)
• 1854 page views (nearly 50% more if you ask blogger rather than google analytics, but it can inflate the number of page views because it includes bots)
• 680 sessions
• 327 users (people)

Now if you know a lot about blogging, you’ll probably think all these numbers are pathetically small. But to me it’s a big deal. 1854 page views! Considering only people I know visit this blog, it feels like a lot. When I wrote the first post, I didn’t even know if anyone would bother to come and read it. I didn’t know if people were going to make fun of it.
So thank you to everyone who has come, even just once. Thank you to all those people who come discreetly, but then tell me they think it’s great I’m doing a blog. Thank you to those who comment, even on the French version (which is on hold for the time being). Thank you for the feedback.

Of course, the really important numbers are the ones about my book.
2014 is:
• 25,000 words of brand new (or completely rewritten) material
• 5 new chapters and 7 new scenes
• Over 82, 000 words of edits
And many, many words cut out (I haven’t counted those).

The book is currently about 130,000 words long and I have about 50k left to heavily edit before I do a final editing for style. The current plan is to finish this summer. If you’re interested in beta-reading the book, or part of it, especially for the writing (no further rounds of editing that will affect plot or characters), then do get in touch!

Thank you to everyone who has supported me this year, be it through kind words or by pushing me to write a little bit more. I feel I can finally see the end at the light of the tunnel.