Nano November: Final Thoughts and Words – Word count: 101,522 +52k

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Day 30: 11/30/15, Monday – THE FINAL PUSH at North Bend Bar and Grill with my Snoqualmie Region Peeps from 7PM-9:30PM for 7,483 words

The after party in Snoqualmie was a lot of fun and the cake was delicious! The following photo was from Sheri J. Kennedy’s collection.

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The Stats You’ve All Been Waiting For:

WIP Word Count Progress Reports:

The Optimist Sees the Donut – 51,505 words

The Pessimist Sees the Hole – 50,017 words

Café Connections (Aster & Tilde Book 1) – 64,136

Total Time spent on For the Love of Donuts Nano Novels 2015: 48.75 hours or 2925 minutes
Final Word Count for both Donuts Books from November 2015: 101,522
Total Money Spent: $177.69
Average WPM all month: 42.15
Average Word Count Per Session: 1,671.9

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Stay Tuned for a Post on My Interesting Rewards System for Finishing Both Books This Month (at least a skeletal draft of both and 50k in each)

  1. Bask in a bath of donuts
  2. Everything on the menu from my favorite donut vendor

And more statistics!

Time Spent on The Optimist Sees the Donut – 1200 minutes (20 hours)
Time Spent on The Pessimist Sees the Hole – 1725 minutes (28.75 hours)

Average WPM on The Optimist Sees the Donut – 41.7 (Max=69.8 and min=15.8)
Average WPM on The Pessimist Sees the Hole – 42.7 (Max=85.5 and min=5.7)

Trends Noticed: The more money I spent, the slower my words per minute (presumably I was busy eating), My words per minute were slower at night (I wrote faster in the morning), The longer I wrote for the fewer words I wrote overall (slower WPM)

And now a few charts:

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Though I spent the most time writing on Sundays, this was not my most productive day.

**Fun facts on location: I went to 22 different locations to write, not including work or home. I went to the Neverending Bookstore 5 times, St. James 3 times, Verne & Wells 2 times, Issaquah Panera once, the Fall City Roadhouse 2 times, the AFK in Renton once, Bellevue Top Pot once, Costco once, CountrySide Donut House once, Daddy’s Donuts once, Factory Donuts once, North Bend Bar and Grill once, Spinderella once, and the Spotted Cow Once.

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Writing at work was most productive for me, though I spent the most time and wrote the most words on my itty bitty Surface Tablet

How about a little about my book?

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The Optimist Sees the Donut (For the Love of Donuts Book 2) & The Pessimist Sees the Hole (For the Love of Donuts Book 2)

Genre: Young Adult

Synopsis

Their friendship has been the one unbreakable thing, the one certainty in their lives, but Nichole Adams and Vanessa Smith are developing into their own persons and their individual life dramas distract them from each other.

Vanessa has never had many friends in her life and even though she wanted to stay friends with Nichole, she met new people in college and is moving on. She has school, she has social activities, and a new group of friends even though she can’t seem to find the right guy.

Nichole is jealous of Vanessa’s ease of everything in the real world. Nessa has no trouble with jobs, money, school, or getting and going places. Nichole, on the other hand was preemptively kicked out of her mom’s house after graduating high school and has been floundering ever since. The only thing she has easy in her life is flirting and getting dates, or at least a guy that will let her crash at his house. Nichole doesn’t always have the best of luck with men.

Forever hopeful that things will change, Nichole still clings to the hope that Vanessa will come back to their friendship and be the best friend from high school that Nichole misses. When guy after guy doesn’t work out for her, Vanessa changes more and more of her personality to attract the right guy, drifting farther and farther from who she really is. Something’s gotta give and this story of how friendships get off track, lies become reality, and bad luck tails bad choices will bring you in and around the little town of Sarasota, Florida that you grew to love in book one of the series – Donuts in an Empty Field.


And in case you haven’t gotten enough info – here’s my spreadsheet:

Location—

Home=H,

Work=W,

St. James=J,

Neverending Bookstore=B,

Verne & Wells=V,

Panera Issy=P,

Fall City Roadhouse=F

Machine—

H=HP,

S=Surface,

D=Dell

Region—

S=Seattle,

N=North Bend/Snoqualmie,

E=Everett/Snohomish

Book—

P=The Pessimist Sees the Hole,

O= The Optimist Sees the Donut

Date Start Time End Time Total Time Location Machine Money Spent Region Total Words Day Novel WPM
1-Nov 8:30 10:00 90 H H 0 S 2773 Sunday P 30.8
1-Nov 11:30 13:00 90 F S 18.44 N 1520 Sunday P 16.9
1-Nov 14:30 15:30 60 V S 0 S 1441 Sunday P 24
1-Nov 17:30 20:00 150 H H 0 S 4271 Sunday P 28.5
2-Nov 7:30 8:00 30 W D 0 S 1000 Monday O 30.3
2-Nov 20:00 20:45 45 H H 0 S 1004 Monday O 22.3
3-Nov 7:20 7:50 30 W D 0 S 1546 Tuesday O 51.5
3-Nov 11:45 12:15 30 W D 0 S 983 Tuesday O 32.7
3-Nov 19:00 19:45 45 Costco S 0 S 1425 Tuesday O 31.7
4-Nov 7:30 8:00 30 W D 0 S 1391 Wednesday O 46.4
4-Nov 17:00 17:40 40 B S 0 S 1500 Wednesday O 37.5
5-Nov 7:20 7:50 30 W D 0 S 1148 Thursday O 38.3
5-Nov 18:15 19:45 30 Spotted Cow S 3.5 E 1683 Thursday O 56.1
6-Nov 7:50 8:00 10 W D 0 S 698 Friday O 69.8
6-Nov 19:40 20:30 50 H H 0 S 2507 Friday O 50.1
7-Nov 13:00 15:00 120 B S 3.56 S 3264 Saturday O 27.2
7-Nov 18:30 19:30 60 J S 4.25 S 1998 Saturday O 33.3
8-Nov 10:00 10:45 45 H H 0 S 2097 Sunday O 46.6
8-Nov 12:00 13:00 60 V S 0 S 1550 Sunday O 25.8
8-Nov 16:00 16:20 20 H H 0 S 1200 Sunday O 60
9-Nov 7:25 8:00 35 W D 0 S 1650 Monday O 47.1
9-Nov 20:00 21:45 105 H H 0 S 3400 Monday O 32.4
10-Nov 7:30 8:00 30 W D 0 S 1250 Tuesday O 41.7
10-Nov 18:00 19:00 60 P S 11.25 N 945 Tuesday O 15.8
11-Nov 8:55 9:30 35 H H 0 S 1787 Wednesday O 51.1
11-Nov 13:50 15:30 100 J S 11.89 S 2804 Wednesday O 28
11-Nov 16:00 17:15 75 B S 0 S 2069 Wednesday O 27.6
12-Nov 7:15 8:00 45 W D 0 S 2145 Thursday O 47.7
12-Nov 12:00 12:10 10 W D 0 S 548 Thursday O 54.8
12-Nov 17:10 17:25 15 W D 0 S 949 Thursday O 63.3
13-Nov 7:45 8:00 15 W D 0 S 840 Friday O 56
13-Nov 17:50 21:00 210 F S 45 P 1186 Friday P 5.7
15-Nov 8:20 9:10 50 Daddy’s Donuts S 10.96 S 1762 Sunday P 35.2
15-Nov 9:30 10:45 75 CountrySide Donut House S 2.2 S 2547 Sunday P 34
15-Nov 11:00 12:15 75 Factory Donuts S 4.11 S 1672 Sunday P 22.3
15-Nov 13:15 15:00 105 B S 0 S 2181 Sunday P 20.8
15-Nov 15:30 16:30 60 Bellevue Top Pot S 6 S 2160 Sunday P 36
16-Nov 7:35 7:55 20 W D 0 S 1066 Monday P 53.3
16-Nov 12:40 12:50 10 W D 0 S 530 Monday P 53
16-Nov 17:45 7:55 10 Spinderella S 0 S 643 Monday P 64.3
17-Nov 7:35 8:15 40 W D 0 S 2484 Tuesday P 62.1
17-Nov 12:20 12:35 15 W D 0 S 1098 Tuesday P 73.2
18-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Wednesday na na
19-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Thursday na na
20-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Friday na na
21-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Saturday na na
22-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Sunday na na
23-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Monday na na
24-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Tuesday na na
25-Nov 7:30 8:00 30 W D 0 S 2063 Wednesday P 68.8
25-Nov 17:00 17:20 20 W D 0 S 1195 Wednesday P 59.8
25-Nov 18:00 19:30 90 AFK Renton S 16.14 S 4810 Wednesday P 53.4
26-Nov 10:15 12:00 105 H S 0 S 4133 Thursday P 39.4
27-Nov 21:45 22:00 15 H S 0 S 600 Friday P 40
28-Nov 10:00 10:15 15 H S 0 S 600 Saturday P 40
28-Nov 12:15 15:00 165 B S 3.23 S 3600 Saturday P 21.8
28-Nov 16:20 16:50 30 H S 0 S 2566 Saturday P 85.5
28-Nov 18:40 19:40 60 J S 3 S 2548 Saturday P 42.5
29-Nov na na na na na na na 0 Sunday na na
30-Nov 19:00 21:15 135 North Bend Bar and Grill S 34.16 N 7483 Monday P 55.4

And finally the stats you’ve been waiting for! Cafe Connections (Aster & Tilde Book 1) was the novel that had me deserting For the Love of Donuts for 8 days in November. But I was still writing! See…

Date

Total Word Count

Day

New Words

9-Oct to 22-Oct

5,752

Thursday

5752

23-Oct

6,155

Friday

403

26-Oct

6,903

Monday

748

27-Oct

7,355

Tuesday

452

28-Oct

8,607

Wednesday

1,252

29-Oct

9,487

Thursday

880

30-Oct

10,348

Friday

861

31-Oct

12,291

Saturday

1,943

1-Nov

12,847

Sunday

556

2-Nov

14,111

Monday

1,264

3-Nov

15,077

Tuesday

966

4-Nov

15,729

Wednesday

652

5-Nov

17,666

Thursday

1,937

6-Nov

18,610

Friday

944

7-Nov

20,640

Saturday

2,030

9-Nov

22,032

Monday

1,392

12-Nov

22,064

Thursday

32

13-Nov

26,003

Friday

3,939

14-Nov

35,112

Saturday

9,109

17-Nov

 37,226

Tuesday

 2,114

 18-Nov

 41,668

Wednesday

 4,442

 19-Nov

44,470

Thursday

2,802

 20-Nov

 50,016

Friday

 5,546

21-Nov

56,031

Saturday

6,015

22-Nov

58,312

Sunday

2,281

23-Nov

59,438

Monday

1,126

24-Nov

64,136

Tuesday

4,698

 

One thought on “Nano November: Final Thoughts and Words – Word count: 101,522 +52k

  1. Wow, very thorough analysis, and quite fun to look at. When I divide your total words by total time spent for the donut series, I see that you really do average twice as many words as me per hour. I can write about 1000 an hour when pretty focused, and you averaged about 2000 per hour. If we divided mine by hour long I spent in front of my laptop it would be dismal, but being co-ML has a whole other set of duties – one of which is to allow and even encourage interruptions by fellow Wrimos at write-ins. I got most of my writing done just before bedtime in the sanctuary of my room. But I wouldn’t trade all the fun and encouragement exchanged at write-ins for anything!

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