Sunday, December 2, 2012

NaNoWriMo 2012 - the rest of the story

I had in mind that I would update you every five days during NaNo, but we all see how that turned out. For the record, I had:

8,346 words on day 5 (par 8,333) = ahead
14,362 words on day 10 (par 16,666) = behind
19,083 words on day 15 (par 25,000) = behind
32,238 words on day 20 (par 33,333) = behind
42,311 words on day 25 (par 41,666) = ahead
50,409 words on day 30 (par 50,000) = WINNER!

If you correlate to days of the week, you begin to see a picture of my writing habits this year. NaNo started on a Thursday, and the following Sunday I was caught up. The next full week (November 5-11) I fell further and further behind, and on Sunday I was caught up again. The following week (November 12-18) my word count was again pretty flat during the week, and by Sunday night I was caught up again. Toward the end of the month, though, I wrote pretty consistently and stayed even with par until the end. A picture to show what I mean:


Words written by day:
Monday 3254
Tuesday 2747
Wednesday 8687
Thursday 7415
Friday 5248
Saturday 11429
Sunday 11629


Weekday total: 27,351 words.
Weekend total: 23,058 words. You can see when I did most of my writing. This is not a surprise, though. It's also not a surprise that Tuesday was my low day as that is my busiest day that starts earliest and ends latest.

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