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Quick update on my novel

20 November 2009

I’m happy to report that I’ve written every day this month on the 50,000-word novel I’m writing for National Novel Writing Month. I’m well on track to accomplish my goal of the completion of a short novel during the month of November.

Two weeks ago I wrote a post about what I’ve learned about what it’s taken to achieve this goal can be compared with tackling any large project, like decluttering.

So here are the statistics, as of this morning, just following my writing session:

• I’ve written 36,243 words.

• I’m 2903 words ahead of my daily quota of 1667 words needed to write 50,000 words in 30 days. That means I could take a couple of days off from writing and still meet my goal. (I don’t intend to take any days off; I want to keep my mojo going.)

• I’ve written an average of 1810 words a day. (I know this because my writing buddy Shannon Wilkinson wrote a fantastic spreadsheet for us to keep track of this stuff.) On my most prolific day (which was November 1), I wrote 2427 words. On the day I was most pressed for time, I wrote only 740 words.

• I’m 72 percent of the way finished.

I can only imagine these statistics fascinate me much more than they fascinate you, but I couldn’t help but share, since I had them at my fingertips.

I’ll update here once I’ve written those magical words THE END.

Tagged with: deadlines, nanowrimo, shannon wilkinson, writing

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