New Nano for 2014 ...

Already on day 2 ... got a 4084 words so far ...

Day Twenty-Eight

FINISHED!   63741 words.  

Well, when I say finished, please understand that this is only a relative expression.  I'm finished with the rough draft.  I hit 50,000 words in record time, for me anyway.  But this went far longer than I anticipated.  This is not a bad thing.  There is a lot going on in the novel.  I had to tie up loose ends.  Or I felt I had to. 

anyway: here is my final breakdown:

DAY	Goal	Actual	Buffer	day total	over/under avg	%	Average
1	1667	1813	146	1813	146	3.626	1813
2	3334	4052	718	2239	572	8.104	2026
3	5001	6260	1259	2208	541	12.52	2086.667
4	6668	9176	2508	2916	1249	18.352	2294
5	8335	11109	2774	1933	266	22.218	2221.8
6	10002	13006	3004	1897	230	26.012	2167.667
7	11669	15138	3469	2132	465	30.276	2162.571
8	13336	18009	4673	2871	1204	36.018	2251.125
9	15003	19725	4722	1716	49	39.45	2191.667
10	16670	21435	4765	1710	43	42.87	2143.5
11	18337	23569	5232	2134	467	47.138	2142.636
12	20004	25529	5525	1960	293	51.058	2127.417
13	21671	27223	5552	1694	27	54.446	2094.077
14	23338	29071	5733	1848	181	58.142	2076.5
15	25005	32007	7002	2936	1269	64.014	2133.8
16	26672	34540	7868	2533	866	69.08	2158.75
17	28339	37645	9306	3105	1438	75.29	2214.412
18	30006	40886	10880	3241	1574	81.772	2271.444
19	31673	43428	11755	2542	875	86.856	2285.684
20	33340	45586	12246	2158	491	91.172	2279.3
21	35007	47366	12359	1780	113	94.732	2255.524
22	36674	47366	10692	0	-1667	94.732	2153
23	38341	50011	11670	2645	978	100.022	2174.391
24	40008	53598	13590	3587	1920	107.196	2233.25
25	41675	56022	14347	2424	757	112.044	2240.88
26	43342	58706	15364	2684	1017	117.412	2257.923
27	45009	61019	16010	2313	646	122.038	2259.963
28	46676	63741	17065	2722	1055	127.482	2276.464

Day Twenty-six --

Guess I missed yesterday.  I got in an average of about 2500 words both yesterday and today.  I'm just over 58000 words now.   The novel is about 95% complete.  I think I will possibly finish tomorrow, but just to be safe, I'm thinking it will more likely be Wednesday.   I am in the tail end of the big ending conflict/resolution.    Then I need to tie things up and sail in for a smooth landing.  

Day Twenty-Four!

Up to 53598 words today, over 3500 more words lumped on the total.  There is no question now of "winning" NaNoWriMo.   I just need to finish the novel.  I estimate two to three days to complete it.  Or this version of it.  Not sure how many words I'll end up with.  The story is telling itself at this point.  I'm just a conduit.  We'll see. 

I haven't posted my entire progress table in a while .. here's how I made 50,000 words this year:

DAY	Goal	Actual	Buffer	day total	over/under avg	%	Average
1	1667	1813	146	1813	146	3.626	1813
2	3334	4052	718	2239	572	8.104	2026
3	5001	6260	1259	2208	541	12.52	2086.667
4	6668	9176	2508	2916	1249	18.352	2294
5	8335	11109	2774	1933	266	22.218	2221.8
6	10002	13006	3004	1897	230	26.012	2167.667
7	11669	15138	3469	2132	465	30.276	2162.571
8	13336	18009	4673	2871	1204	36.018	2251.125
9	15003	19725	4722	1716	49	39.45	2191.667
10	16670	21435	4765	1710	43	42.87	2143.5
11	18337	23569	5232	2134	467	47.138	2142.636
12	20004	25529	5525	1960	293	51.058	2127.417
13	21671	27223	5552	1694	27	54.446	2094.077
14	23338	29071	5733	1848	181	58.142	2076.5
15	25005	32007	7002	2936	1269	64.014	2133.8
16	26672	34540	7868	2533	866	69.08	2158.75
17	28339	37645	9306	3105	1438	75.29	2214.412
18	30006	40886	10880	3241	1574	81.772	2271.444
19	31673	43428	11755	2542	875	86.856	2285.684
20	33340	45586	12246	2158	491	91.172	2279.3
21	35007	47366	12359	1780	113	94.732	2255.524
22	36674	47366	10692	0	-1667	94.732	2153
23	38341	50011	11670	2645	978	100.022	2174.391
24	40008	53598	13590	3587	1920	107.196	2233.25

Day Twenty-Three

Okay, I took a couple of days off of posting.  Sorry.  Things get hectic around here on the way to Thanksgiving.   I did write on day 21, Wednesday.  I hit a minimal 1700+ words and pushed myself to about 47500 or so words.  Just a rough guess. 
Thursday, I was busy with some cleaning and a LOT of cooking.  Menu was Turkey and Dressing,  a green bean casserole (family recipe, definitely not your usual green bean casserole), two family gelatin salads, one from Gretchen's family and one from mine.  A corn casserole and a sweet potato "pudding" recipe ... both of which have been added over the years.  We had a smattering of other things, like the requisite cranberry sauce and olives.  Also a couple of things people brought, a spinach/artichoke dip and some deviled eggs. 
All in all it was a good day.  But no writing.  I didn't write last Thanksgiving either.  I had a buffer going into Thursday of over 12,000 words. 
Today, day 23 I managed a minimal word count, but since I was off today, I managed to kick back in gear and crank out another thousand or so words.  I pushed my self over 50,000.  This is five days earlier than I have ever hit 50,000 words before.  So there is no question of being called a "winner" on NaNoWriMo this year but ... the novel draft is still not finished.  I think I have at least two good days of writing ahead to actually call this draft finished. 
So, I'm pushing on ... the novel will come in at whatever word count it ends up with. 

Day TWENTY ---

Another 2100+ words today, bringing my total to 45,586    Worked mostly on setting up for a the really big scene of the novel.  Not sure how long that will take.  I want to finish close to 50,000 but I don't want to rush it either.  I'm thinking somewhere around 55,000 or 60,000 overall.  We'll see how it goes. 

Day NINETEEN

I hit a major turning point in my story.  The diversion from my original storyline has been completed and I think it was all worth the extra trip.  There is a slight twist that adds a bit more to the story overall.  At least so it seems to me. 
Total as of today is 43428.  I managed 2500+ words today.  My buffer stands really close to 12000 words  I think if I wrote the minimum average of 1667 words I'd be at only about 31673 today. 
I've never been this far this quickly in NaNoWriMo before.  It feels good.
But what feels better is the fact that the story is going so well.  It isn't just word counts, it is word counts telling an actual story that seems to make some sense. 
Oh, don't get me wrong ... writing this fast you can be sure that it is pretty awful   But at the core, there is the basis for a good story.  The foundation, the structure, the overall look and feel of the thing is I think something that I can work with and craft into something worthwhile.