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.

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

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:

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.

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?

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

Synopsis

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

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…

Total time spent: 8 hours and 50 minutes (530 minutes)

Total word count: 94,039 (30,262 in week 1 & 25,520 in week 2 &16,143 in week 3)

WIP Word Count Progress Reports:

The Optimist Sees the Donut – 43,591 words

The Pessimist Sees the Hole – 50,017 words

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

Day 22: 11/22/15, Sunday

Location(s): NA

Noteworthy: I worked on Cafe Connections today. Will work on Donuts when I finish the first draft of this romance novel.

Money Spent: $0

Total time spent: 0 minutes

Total word count: 0 words

Day 23: 11/23/15, Monday

Location(s):

Noteworthy: I worked on Cafe Connections today. Will work on Donuts when I finish the first draft of this romance novel.

Money Spent: $0

Total time spent: 0 minutes

Total word count: 0 words

Day 24: 11/24/15, Tuesday

Location(s):

Noteworthy: I worked on Cafe Connections today. Will work on Donuts when I finish the first draft of this romance novel.

Money Spent: $0

Total time spent: 0 minutes

Total word count: 0 words

Day 25: 11/25/15, Wednesday

Location(s):

○ Early at work 7:30AM-8AM, 2063 words

○ After work 5PM-5:20PM, 1195 words

○ AFK in Renton 6:00PM-7:30PM. 4810 words

Noteworthy: Even though I’d spent a week off from writing this book, I was able to pick it right back up fresh in the morning

Money Spent: $16.14 on Sell Out Sliders and a wonderful artisan tea at the AFK

Total time spent: 2 hours and 20 minutes

Total word count: 8,068 words

Day 26: 11/26/15, Thursday

Location(s):

○ At home 10:15AM-12:00PM, 4133 words

Total time spent: 1 hour and 45 minutes

Total word count: 4,133 words

Day 27: 11/27/15, Friday

Location(s):

○ At home 9:45PM-10:00PM, 600 words

Total time spent: 15 minutes

Total word count: 600 words

Day 28: 11/28/15, Saturday

Location(s):

○ At home 10AM-10:15AM, 600 words

○ Neverending Bookstore 12:15PM-3PM, 3600 words

○ At home 4:20PM-4:50PM, 2566 words

○ St James Espresso 6:40PM-7:40PM, 2548 words

Noteworthy: I was pushing to finish the Pessimist Sees the Hole and worked hard to get to 50k in that book.

Money Spent: $3.23 for the special pumpkin white chocolate mocha from Brew in downtown Bothell and $3 ish for tea from St. James

Total time spent: 4 hours and 30 minutes

Total word count: 9,314 words

Total time spent: 7 hours and 40 minutes (460 minutes)

Total word count: 71,924 (30,262 in week 1 & 25,520 in week 2) for 16,143 new words in week 3

WIP Word Count Progress Reports:

The Optimist Sees the Donut – 43,591 words

The Pessimist Sees the Hole – 27,955 words

Café Connections (Aster & Tilde Book 1) – 46,000 (14,472 words week 2, 8,640 words week 1 of Nano and 12k in October)

Day 15: 11/15/15, Sunday
Location(s):
○ Daddy’s Donuts 8:20AM-9:10AM, 1762 words
○ CountrySide Donut House 9:30AM-10:45AM, 2547 words
○ Factory Donuts11AM-12:15PM, 1672 words
○ Neverending Bookstore 1:15PM-3PM, 2180 words
○ Top Pot – Bellevue 3:30PM-4:30PM, 2160 words
Total time spent: 6 hours and 5 minutes
Total word count: 10,322 words

Day 16: 11/16/15, Monday
Location(s):
○ Work 7:35AM -7:55AM, 1066 words
○ Work 12:40PM -12:50PM, 530 words
○ Spinderella before class 5:45P-5:55PM, 643 words
Total time spent: 40 minutes
Total word count: 2239 words

Day 17: 11/17/15, Tuesday
Location(s):
○ Work 7:35-8:15AM, 2484 words
○ Work during lunch 12:20 – 12:35, 1098 words
Total time spent: 1 hour 5 minutes
Total word count: 3582words

Day 18: 11/18/15, Wednesday
Location(s):
Noteworthy: I chose to spend today working on my romance novel after getting critiques yesterday from my group on an earlier chapter.
Total time spent: 0 time
Total word count: 0 words

Day 19: 11/19/15, Thursday
Location(s):
Noteworthy: I worked on my romance novel again! Doing super well on that novel and can’t “put it down.”
Total time spent: 0 time
Total word count: 0 words

Day 20: 11/20/15, Friday
Location(s):
Location(s):
Noteworthy: I worked on my romance novel again! Doing super well on that novel and can’t “put it down.”
Total time spent: 0 time
Total word count: 0 words

Day 21: 11/21/15, Saturday
Location(s):
Location(s):
Noteworthy: I worked on my romance novel again. I’ve decided to finish this book and then go back to donuts
Total time spent: 0 time
Total word count: 0 words

Total time spent: 14 hours and 20 minutes (860 minutes)

Total word count: 55,782 (30,262 in week 1) for 25,520 new words in week 2

To get to 50k words: 26 hours and 5 minutes or 1565 minutes at 32WPM

WIP Word Count Progress Reports:

The Optimist Sees the Donut – 43,591 words

The Pessimist Sees the Hole – 12,362 words

Café Connections (Aster & Tilde Book 1) – 35,112 (8,640 words week 1 of Nano and 12k in October) for 14,472 new words!

Day 8: 11/08/15, Sunday
Location(s):
○ At home 10AM – 10:45AM, 2097 words
○ Verne and Wells 12PM -1PM, 1550 words
○ At home 4PM – 4:20PM, 1200 words
Total time spent: 2 hours and 5 minutes
Total word count: 4847 words

Day 9: 11/09/15, Monday
Location(s):
○ At work early 7:25AM – 8AM, 1650 words
○ At home 8PM-9:45PM, 3400 words
Total time spent: 2 hour and 20 minutes
Total word count: 5050 words

Day 10: 11/10/15, Tuesday
Location(s):
○ Early at work 7:30AM – 8AM, 1250 words
○ Panera Issaquah 6PM – 7Pm, 945 words
Money Spent: Soba chicken noodle bowl and a bagel at Panera $11.25
Total time spent: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total word count: 2195 words

Day 11: 11/11/15, Wednesday
Location(s):
○ Early at home 8:55AM – 9:30AM, 1787 words
○ St James 1:50PM- 3:30PM, 2804 words
○ Never Ending Bookstore write-in 4PM – 5:15PM, 2069 words
Noteworthy: I miscalculated my word count somewhere and was about 1000 words under what I had put online and had write like mad to get to 50k today.
Money Spent: St. James breakfast burrito and mocha $11.89
Total time spent: 3 hours 30 minutes
Total word count: 6660 words

Day 12: 11/12/15, Thursday
Location(s):
○ Early at work 7:15AM – 8AM, 2145 words
○ During work lunch 12-12:10PM, 548 words
○ Work 5:10PM – 5:25 PM, 949 words
Total time spent: 1 hour and 10 minutes
Total word count: 3642 words

Day 13: 11/13/15, Friday
Location(s):
○ Early at work 7:45AM – 8:00AM, 840 words
○ Fall City Roadhouse Write-in 5:30PM-9PM, 1186 words
Noteworthy: Won a game challenge (4″ funky mirror disco ball) where I had to write in a specific set of words in a short amount of time, the Stayin’ Alive Game
Money Spent: Fall City Roadhouse $45 for two: pulled pork sandwich, fish and chips, coke, hot chocolate
Total time spent: 3 hours and 45 minutes
Total word count: 2026 words

Day 14: 11/14/15, Saturday
Location(s):
○ Home
○ Neverending Bookstore Write in
Noteworthy: Instead of starting in on Pessimist, I changed gears and worked on Café Connections (Aster & Tilde Book 1) my romance story and wrote 9k words today at home and at the Neverending Bookstore write in.
Total time spent: NA
Total word count: NA