I spent some hours at Flycon, the first online international SF convention (no, I didn’t come here and tell you about it–I forgot.\u00a0\u00a0 Sorry.)<\/p>\n
While in the middle of a discussion of how the internet creates social networks and how writers use those (and how they should<\/em> be doing it)\u00a0 several people (writers and non both) said they loathed and despised word counts, progress reports, in writers’ blogs.<\/p>\n So my question for you is, “Do you?”<\/p>\n I like seeing them in other writers’ blogs, and sometimes it spurs me to get back to work.\u00a0\u00a0 Posting my “counts” (at least when I have any) helps me stay focused, keep track of my work, not spend all day chatting online, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 I would not have gotten so far last fall without that.\u00a0\u00a0 But if it’s highly annoying to all of you,\u00a0 I could maybe quit.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0\u00a0 (Though maybe not.\u00a0 How hard is it to skip the posts labeled Progress Report if you don’t want to read it???)<\/p>\n I’ve now vacated Flycon to go back to work on the book….or maybe you didn’t want to know that (evil grin appears, Cheshire-cat-like,\u00a0 above the monitor…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spent some hours at Flycon, the first online international SF convention (no, I didn’t come here and tell you about it–I forgot.\u00a0\u00a0 Sorry.) While in the middle of a discussion of how the internet creates social networks and how writers use those (and how they should be doing it)\u00a0 several people (writers and non […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}