2009 Word Count Graph and Useless Statistics

Here is my word count graph for the month:

The NaNoWriMo site added a gray bar that shows your goal for each day. This year, I didn't skip any days until the very end after I declared myself "done," which is a good feeling.

Some useless statistics:

Average words per day: 2,288.7

Median words per day: 1,944

Minimum: 251

Maximum: 7,642 (on the last day!)

Number of days where I wrote: 28

Total words written:

--> 64,061 according to Word;

--> 64,088 according to NaNoWriMo;

--> 64,019 according to counting the individual words

Number of unique words used: 5,535
Average number of times a word gets used: 11.6
Most used words: The (4,196), To (2,180), And (1,860), She (1,331), Her (1,230)
Most used meaningful words: Kaylee (596), Room (243), Door (223), Going (177), Time (162)
I used 2,653 words only once each

I wrote this year's story in present tense, which was a challenge sometimes. Several times, I had to go back through what I wrote and change it from past tense to reflect that. I'm not sure I got them all, either. I'm also not sure what the rule is about writing something in past tense within the text if you're writing about something now that happened before, and I don't mean in dialogue, either.

As happened last year, I think the story ended too abruptly. Last year's story actually kindof made sense. This year's story, I think there's a different pacing to the last part of the story. The first part is more descriptive and paced. The last part is all crazy-like. This might show what I mean:

Chapter 1: 2,946 words
Chapter 2: 2,218 words
Chapter 3: 3,418 words
Chapter 4: 2,385 words
Chapter 5: 1,656 words
Chapter 6: 773 words
Chapter 7: 1,985 words
Chapter 8: 2,339 words
Chapter 9: 1,959 words
Chapter 10: 2,413 words
Chapter 11: 2,379 words
Chapter 12: 2,317 words
Chapter 13: 2,186 words
Chapter 14: 2,549 words
Chapter 15: 3,823 words
Chapter 16: 3,036 words
Chapter 17: 2,971 words
Chapter 18: 15,068 words!!!
Chapter 19: 7,621 words!

After chapter 17, things changed!

Okay, enough stats for now.