I love all the graphs and charts NaNoWriMo gives us to track our month of writing so I thought I’d share some of mine with you.

 

I won NaNoWriMo this year which felt pretty great after not getting anywhere close last year. However, as soon as I realized I’d hit that 50k goal I lost all my momentum. As soon as I finished that thought, I was done for the night.

I was really, really consistent for the first few days of the month. I shocked myself with my consistency. I don’t think I’ve ever pulled that off before and I’ve done NaNoWriMo every year since 2006.

I had a couple rough patches though the month but I was lucky enough to find the time and energy to make up for the days I could barely write.

This chart makes it really clear which days were my bad days. Some of these days I could barely stand looking at screens because I had a migraine. I was unlucky enough to have two migraines during November. Two of my bad writing days were because I was lucky enough to spend time with friends so at least those days weren’t bad overall.

Here’s a different view of the same stats. Things were really up and down in the middle of the month!

This statistic is pretty accurate, but I’d probably say I write the most between 9PM and 12AM. However, I wrote a lot more during the day this year than I had in the past. I tended to update the NaNoWriMo site around 11PM each night and then scramble to write enough to get caught up or as close to caught up as I could by midnight. Most nights once midnight hit I was done writing and started to wind down and get ready for bed.

I did it! I won NaNoWriMo. Last year I didn’t manage to win but this year I got back on track.

It took a couple days of focused writing there at the end to make it, but I did it.

Now I’m going to rest and take a little time away from writing before I pick a project to continue.