NaNo By the Numbers

Even though I’m not good at math, I still love to measure progress with numbers. It motivates me and excites me to break down my writing into word counts.

So, my personal goal for NaNo is 80,000 words. (That is more than I’ve ever written on any project. My novel (W)hole is 65,000 and that’s the longest I’ve ever written).

I have an outline with, as the moment, 95 scenes.

That means that if every scene were of equal length, they would need to be: 843 words, which is about three pages. To make sure I have enough words, I’ll probably work to try to get every scene at least that long. Three pages is a lot for me, though, so I might try to break down the outline into more basic scenes, see if there’s anywhere that I’m glossing over and telling instead of showing.

I have 30 days, so that means writing three scenes per day, or 2,666.6 words per day. That’s about nine pages every day without fail.

That certainly is a challenge!

How am I doing so far? Check the progress bar on the right of this screen to see my word count!

Total Words: 80,000

Total Scenes: 95

Total Chapters: 36

Total Days: 30

Per Scene: 843

Per Chapter: 2,222.2

Per Day: 2,666.6