NaNo Stats

[vaneramos]

Both years I used NaNoWriMo report card (an Excel file) to chart my progress. In addition to some pretty graphs I won't display here, it produced some interesting statistics for comparison:

Year	2003	2004
Total word count	50,079	50,470
Total hours spent writing	64.25	47.33
Number of writing days	23	20
Days spent behind schedule	7	21
Completion date	Nov. 27	Nov. 30
Average words written per day (based on total days to completion)	1,854	1,682
Average words written per writing day	2,177	2,524
Largest daily word count	3,560  (Nov. 12)	4,127 (Nov. 18)
Longest work day	6 hours (Nov. 3)	4 hours (Nov. 3)
Average hours writing per day (based on total days to completion)	2.38	1.58
Average hours writing per writing day	2.79	2.37
Average words per hour	779	1,066
Highest words per hour	1,372 (Nov. 27)	1,526 (Nov. 30)
Average morale per day (scale of 1 to 10)	6	6
Days reported morale of 9 or 10	4, 10	2, 11, 15, 18

Comments

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

but did it say that this year's writing was
better than last year's?~paul
(just sayin' )

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Paul. It felt much stronger this time.

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

it was.~paul