NaNoWriMo by the Numbers

Now that I have completed the 30-day NaNoWriMo challenge, here is a look at what I did "by the numbers".  If you ask me, it's pretty impressive:

61,131 words in 30 days. That's an average of 2,037 words/day
Wrote on 25 out of 30 days.  If you count just those 25 days, I wrote an average of 2,445 words/day
Wrote every one of the first 21 days without a break
My single best day: Friday, November 12 with 3,862 words
My single worst day: Sunday, November 21 with 1,875 words
I finished the month 11,121 words ahead of NaNoWriMo pace
At my high point on November 21, I was 17,027 words ahead of NaNoWriMo pace
I spent a total of 46 hours at the keyboard doing actual novel writing
That's an average of 1,327 words/hour, or about 5 manuscript pages

Now consider that in addition to this, I also:

Wrote 6,621 words of short fiction during this time

That brings my total fiction for the month of November to 67,652 words.  That is utterly mind-boggling to me and it tells me that if I put my mind to it, I can write every single day

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