Camp Nanowrimo winner, here. Phew…
I did it.
Woo… look at that last day. It is
the time zone thing, I updated late one night and then frequently the next day
and it put it all in one 24 hour period. I didn’t cheat, I swear it.
And a very interesting month it
was too. In keeping with Monica’s writing method I tracked everything.
The columns across are times, word
count start and finish, words per session, daily total, words per hour and
words per minute.
I did 20 minute writing sprints with
short breaks in a Pomodoro style of 3 or 4 then took a longer break. I did seem
to decline rapidly if I did too many of them, so I have learnt something from
that: longer breaks are good. I used my breaks to walk so I've hit my step
goals for the month as well. Go, me.
This is my threesome romance. I can’t
tell if I’m just good at writing that kind of content, or if I was in a coffee
guzzling panic as the end of the month (and the deadline) approached. Meh…
either way, my words per hour average for the month is 1155.
So doing the math: if I wrote for
one hour every day, I should have 1155x365= 421,575 words in a year.
What? No, no, no, that can’t be
right. That’s like 4 entire books.
*frowns at figures* recalculates*
admits math is right*
Huh.
I did kind of let the 500 word a
day project go. But I added a lot of words to the haunted house story. It’s now
at that read through, this scene should happen before that scene, did I just change
the name of a character three times (he was matt, then max, then something else
that started with M- mick? Bad, bad brain), oh the math on the character ages
and children don’t add up… that stage. Do I like this stage of story writing? No.
no, I do not.
My total of all words for the
month is 91,191 which IS an entire book.
So, I have no excuses.
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