#nanowinner2016

NaNoWriMo wrap up: The big secret.

I’ve spent a day recovering from National Novel Writing Month and I’m happy to report that I did it. I wrote 50,000 words in my third novel of the Synchronicity trilogy and I won. What did I win? Well, this: Which is really just a fancy way of saying I can feel huge accomplishment in the fact that I spent a month writing and not procrastinating. Because, as we all (especially my high school…

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I won NaNoWriMo! And it was horribly difficult, the hardest NaNoWriMo event I’ve ever done, but I made it through.

And this entire post is just my bragging, but goddammit, I’m gonna brag.

I kept track of my writing time for the whole month using Gleeo Time Tracker on my phone and ran it through Google Sheets. I honestly love the charts so much that I’m thinking about doing this every month... New Year’s Resolution?

Some takeaways:

1. It took me 27 hours, 17 minutes to write 50,173 words.

2. My average fiction writing session was 22 minutes long, and my longest session was 1 hour, 12 minutes. That longest session happened on November 29, which is when I reached 50K.

I Did It! #NaNoWinner2016

I have wanted to do Nanowrimo for years and years.  I just never had the confidence to do it.  This year I told one friend that I wanted to do it and that I wanted her to hold me accountable.  Then I told a few other friends, and then I told you guys.  Telling people really pushed me towards finishing and not giving up. I did it!  Yesterday morning I pushed past the 50,000 word mark on the very…