AcornHunter muttering in the distance: "So what? Dostoyevskiy wrote "Gambler" in 4 weeks..."
It's not that big of a word count (50.000 roundish) for an experimented writer, let alone someone having 20 years of experience at this point in his life like Dostoyevskiy.
I write around 65.000 readable cohesive words monthly. It's around 2.5k a day 6 day a week and that's my rough average. But I also have over ten years of writing under my belt.
Writing nearly 264.000 words in a year and a half ON TOP of coding a game AND still having a job on the side (at the start), is genuinly impressive.
And a
humongus amount of work.
To give you an idea, 1.000 words in fiction is roughly 2 hours of work for me. 264.000 words would take for someone like me
528 hours of work. that's
22 full 24 hours days or roundish
53 10-hours work day of nothing but writing.
Le_Stag can perfectly write faster than me ! But even then it's still hundred of hours poured into the words.
And if he write any slower ? Well... honestly the sky is the limit.
Since we're version 0.26, and we have 264.000 roundish words that's basically 10.000 words per update. Averaged Roundish. It's a LOT of work!
So again congrats on that
Le Stag