Howdy, y’all, Jobe here for another bonus weekend post. Since yesterday 11/15 marked the half-way point for Nano participants, I wanted to take a look at word counts. 2011 was my first year participating in Nano, and I won, so it’s a good year to use for a comparison to this year, which I also intend to win!
Here’s how I stack up against my prior self:
November 2014 vs November 2011
- 2802 1866
- +2313=5115 +2396=4262
- +1182=6297 +2225=6487
- +1342=7639 +1887=8374
- sick +2024=10398
- class +1951=12349
- tired sick
- +3620=11259 +4295=16644
- +1047=12306 +1320=17964
- +1747=14053 tired
- reading cleaning
- +1316=15369 +3813=21777
- class +1100=22877
- work tv
- +5329=20698 friends over
So I started stronger this year but by day 3 my prior self was going at a faster pace. This year I’ve taken 6 days off and by this point last time I’d taken only 5 days off. In 2011 my highest words for one day was 4295 words on Nov 8th. This year my highest word count was 5329, which I did yesterday at a Write-A-Thon sponsored by the local Nano group. And my mid-month totals aren’t far off from each other, only 2179 words apart. I think I can close that gap pretty fast, don’t you?
Tell your mid-month Nano story in the comments! And as always, Keep Writing.
Jobe
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