It’s time for one of my favorite post-Nano items, your final stats. We all know the obvious ones, the total words and hours, but hopefully you’ll come up with a few novel ones (get it?) of your own. I’ll start you off with some of the easier ones, especially if you have a Nano Report Card spreadsheet, or other such tool. You may use some or all of these, but please feel free to add some creative ones of your own:
TOTAL WORDS WRITTEN:
ACTUAL WRITING DAYS IT TOOK YOU:
BIGGEST WORD COUNT DAY:
NUMBER OF HOURS IT TOOK:
AVERAGE WORDS PER HOUR:
HIGHEST WORD COUNT HOUR:
MOST HOURS YOU WROTE IN ONE DAY:
CUPS OF COFFEE CONSUMED:
NUMBER OF MEALS SKIPPED:
NUMBER OF FUN OUTTINGS YOU HAD:
HOURS OF TIVO YOU NOW HAVE TO CATCH UP ON:
LOADS OF LAUNDRY WAITING FOR YOU:
WHAT YOU WILL DO TO REWARD YOURSELF:
ARE YOU READY FOR NANO 2008?
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Winner 2001 - The "M" Word
Winner 2002 - Running Time
Winner 2003 - Changing Time
Winner 2004 - Time Out
Winner 2005 - Buying Time
Winner 2006 - Finding Time
Winner 2007 - Fireballs
50,979 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2007 - 00 55
TOTAL WORDS WRITTEN: 50,979
ACTUAL WRITING DAYS IT TOOK YOU: 24 (4 days of 0 words and 1 day under 100 words)
BIGGEST WORD COUNT DAY: Today, 5292 (sidenote: biggest word day EVER!)
NUMBER OF HOURS IT TOOK: 41.25 (shortest time ever)
AVERAGE WORDS PER HOUR: 1236
HIGHEST WORD COUNT HOUR: I don't record this, but the highest words per hour day was on the 20th, when I only wrote half an hour and got 1198
MOST HOURS YOU WROTE IN ONE DAY: 3 1/2 on the 11th
CUPS OF COFFEE CONSUMED: maybe 10?
NUMBER OF MEALS SKIPPED: only a couple
NUMBER OF FUN OUTTINGS YOU HAD: I had many fun write-outs!
HOURS OF TIVO YOU NOW HAVE TO CATCH UP ON: oh wow, I don't even want to think about that! probably around 15-20 :O
LOADS OF LAUNDRY WAITING FOR YOU: 0
WHAT YOU WILL DO TO REWARD YOURSELF: I am eating an ice cream right NOW
ARE YOU READY FOR NANO 2008? oh hell no!
58,992 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2007 - 02 33
TOTAL WORDS WRITTEN: 59,411
ACTUAL WRITING DAYS IT TOOK YOU: 26, if you exclude those worthless 4 days at the beginning when I was writing 15-150 words /day
BIGGEST WORD COUNT DAY: 11/29: wrote 5,453. I had won but was trying to finish the book.
NUMBER OF HOURS IT TOOK: 67 and counting
AVERAGE WORDS PER HOUR: 887
HIGHEST WORD COUNT HOUR: 1,157
MOST HOURS YOU WROTE IN ONE DAY: 11/28, the day I won, 5.8 hours
CUPS OF COFFEE CONSUMED: 5 per day...could have been more...=150 total. And we're talking big cups, strong stuff.
NUMBER OF MEALS SKIPPED: 1-2 per day...unless you count chocolate as a food group
NUMBER OF FUN OUTINGS YOU HAD: the 3 mariachi practices, and besides that...uh...
HOURS OF TIVO YOU NOW HAVE TO CATCH UP ON: 0 baby, still gotta finish!!
LOADS OF LAUNDRY WAITING FOR YOU: 5
WHAT YOU WILL DO TO REWARD YOURSELF: finish the book, actually read something, play more mariachi, drink with my friends, render the apartment inhabitable, pay the bills, learn how to skateboard, drink the rain, exercise a body part other than my fingers
ARE YOU READY FOR NANO 2008? Oh dear God...
80,300 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2007 - 15 43
TOTAL WORDS WRITTEN: An extremely painful 80,250
ACTUAL WRITING DAYS IT TOOK YOU: Excluding the tech support calls 10-minute writing day and the editing day at the end to hit 80K - 21 total
BIGGEST WORD COUNT DAY: 11,000 on the dot
NUMBER OF HOURS IT TOOK: 13 OUCH!!! 105 Total hours
AVERAGE WORDS PER DAY / HOUR: 3774 / 768
HIGHEST WORD COUNT HOUR: 1253 at 1:30am on the 28th. I guess I still had some oomph left in me.
WORST DAY (EVER): 56 - no there's no K at the end, just 56. After all the tech support calls trying to get my wireless Internet access restored ended at midnight. That session of writing lasted a whole 11 minutes. The nap I took to recover lasted 6-7 hours. My only good sleep of the month.
HOURS PISSED AWAY ON THE ABOVE CALLS AND SHOPPING FOR NEW (still not working right) LINKSYS ROUTER: At least 7
NUMBER OF WEB PAGES USED FOR RESEARCH: My history has too many to count, but it looks like upwards of 150-200. Eeek! When did I find time to write?
NUMBER OF WEB PAGES STILL OPEN: 48
NUMBER OF MEALS SKIPPED: At least a dozen lunches
HOURS SPENT IN THE THINK-TANK (SHOWER): APX. 11 (Mostly at very low flow)
NUMBER OF FUN OUTTINGS YOU HAD: Maybe 2 Dinner and Enchanted (Cute, but I was so sleepy)
NUMBER OF HOURS SPENT SLEEPING FOR 3 WEEKS: APX. 3-4 per night. I don't even want to do the math on this one. Nothing like a relaxing vacation, huh? I think I actually slept less than usual - if that's even humanly possible.
HOURS OF TIVO YOU NOW HAVE TO CATCH UP ON: No more than usual. Squeezed some in during dinner breaks.
LOADS OF LAUNDRY WAITING FOR YOU: Two are in there right now, but there are probably four more waiting for runway clearance
WHAT YOU WILL DO TO REWARD YOURSELF: I was expecting to finish on Tuesday, but something went horrible LONG! That took care of a lot of rewarding time. Of course, that was going to be filled with house cleaning, putting in a new disposal, doing my room-by-room to do cleanup list - hmmm, no wonder I didn't finish early...what an incentive! Of course, there is tonight's big shindig!
ARE YOU READY FOR NANO 2008? Sure, it's still 11 months away. My wrists oughta heal by then. I think.
50,115 / 50,000
Dec 2, 2007 - 01 28
TOTAL WORDS WRITTEN: 50,115
ACTUAL WRITING DAYS IT TOOK YOU: 14 (one 0 day when I was completely exhausted)
BIGGEST WORD COUNT DAY: November 15th-- 10,680 words
NUMBER OF HOURS IT TOOK: 24.18
AVERAGE WORDS PER HOUR: 2,073
HIGHEST WORD COUNT HOUR: 2,499
MOST HOURS YOU WROTE IN ONE DAY: 5, on the 15th
CUPS OF COFFEE CONSUMED: 0. :D
NUMBER OF MEALS SKIPPED: ...0.
NUMBER OF FUN OUTTINGS YOU HAD: Define 'fun.'
HOURS OF TIVO YOU NOW HAVE TO CATCH UP ON: I'm not sure. I lost count.
LOADS OF LAUNDRY WAITING FOR YOU: My closet has imploded on itself.
WHAT YOU WILL DO TO REWARD YOURSELF: Not worry about Nano until October 31, 2008.
ARE YOU READY FOR NANO 2008? Hypothetically, yes. Realistically, no flippin' way.