I've written more words this year, to date, than I wrote in all of last year

Some might recall that last year was an insanely productive year for me. I wrote 279,000 words, which was more than my combined output during the five years of my writing "career". Originally, this year did not look like it was going to be as productive, and I was happy enough with that. I thought that I had spent last year establishing a productivity-r…