How to write a first draft--a numbers graph in honor of NaNoWriMo

Date Daily wc Cumulative


8/12/2011 1956 1956
8/15/2011 4540 6496
8/16/2011 4226 10722
8/17/2011 4580 15302
8/19/2011 2396 17698
9/15/2011 4236 21934
9/16/2011 4449 26383
9/19/2011 4913 32296
9/20/2011 5039 35821
9/21/2011 4525 40860
9/22/2011 3470 44330
9/23/2011 5812 50142
10/19/2011 2369 53511
10/25/2011 5801 58312
10/26/2011 4974 63286
10/27/2011 2532 65818
10/28/2011 4005 69823
10/31/2011 3087 72910
11/1/2011 5117 78027
11/2/2011 4990 83017
11/3/2011 5926 88943
11/4/2011 3973 92916

You can see how happy numbers make me. This is a progress log of the novel most recently completed. The problem with NaNoWriMo for a working writer is that you so very rarely have a full month in which to devote to drafting. Mostly, it gets shoved in here and there, between revisions of the novel actually sold, and PR events and critiques etc. I think I could actually write a first draft of a novel in one month, but it's possible that the breaks are useful for letting my hindbrain figure out what is going to happen next. Mostly, it feels really painful to jump back into a novel like this. But so it goes . . .