Sunday 29 November 2009

NaNoWriMo Finish & Some Statistics

Today I finished the first draft of my NaNo novel. I am not perfectly happy, but then I never am towards the end, because by the time I get to the end I know all sorts of things that are wrong with it. However, I am glad that I finished my goal, and I do have a completed first draft. It's 81539 words, so about 6k less than I was expecting, but I know there is plenty of material to add so that's no big deal.
So some statistics: WK 1 = 27561 words WK 2 = 26933 words WK 3 = 16166 words WK 4 = 10865 words I am sure you spotted the downwards trend there. Highest Word Count Per Day 8376 on 1st of November Lowest Word Count Per Day 131 on 22nd of November I am going to leave the story to rest for a few weeks, but I am considering a major change. Currently it's written in multiple POV, with main character's POV for the most part, and couple of other characters POV on minor scale - I am thinking about changing it to first person POV, because I feel that would make a better story. But just to make sure that it's not a spur of the moment thing because I am spotting lots of issues, I will wait for a while and then read through the story and make the final decision. So that's all folks. That's NaNo over. Now I had better decide what I am going to work on, so I don't drift away from writing habit.

7 comments:

  1. Congrats on getting so far in one month. I'm interested to see what happens with your story. And I'm glad you're going to let it rest for a bit before hacking into it. :]

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  2. Congrats on the win and the continued writing! No matter if you slowed or not, you reached that "finish line" and that's awesome!!

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  3. Still love the new blog design. Very clean and readable.

    In my 48 years I've never written 8K words in one day of ANYTHING -- fiction, nonfiction, professional writing, nada.

    (But I did finish my first-ever NaNoWriMo, so I'm counting that a win.)

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    HD
    www.wordflix.org

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  4. Tara,

    I am sure I will keep you guys posted about the story. I know it's a keeper, and it's one that I would definitely like to bring it to publishable standard. I also know that main storyline won't change now (done that already), but yeah format might change.

    Aimee,

    Thanks. Yes, I have to say NaNo does work for me. I will have to try do it again soon. Next November is too far away.

    HD,

    Thanks. I like this new look myself, though initially I was partial to Black background.

    8K on the first day was due to initial NaNo excitement, since I had been waiting for weeks to start. :-) Shame never managed that again.

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  5. Many congrats on finishing the draft! Great job...that's a lotta words!

    I sprinted to the finish line very early this morning (1:21am, LOL)...what a rush! Now I need to finish my draft, but that will happen at a far more leisurely pace. :-)

    Enjoy your rest...and the excitement of a shiny new idea!

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  6. You are awesome. I didn't finish this year actually (long story, just posted something about it), but I had fun during the process. Maybe next year I'll be cool like you :)

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