General NaNoWriMo Stats Round Up

General NaNoWriMo Stats Round Up

For NaNoWriMo main:

◦    341,375 participants, up a whopping 33% from 2011’s total of 256,618 writers.
◦    We wrote a grand total of 3,288,976,325 words, up 7% from 2011’s 3,074,068,446.
◦    This averaged out to 9364 words per person!
◦    We had 38,438 winners, giving us a 11% win rate!

For NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program:

◦    97,864 participants, up 21% from 2011’s total of 81,040...