Just a quick check-in with you (I’m busy, you know!) to let
you know about the start. I could have typed the first word for NaNoWriMo 2013
at 12:01 am, but I was still asleep. However, being an early riser, I did log
the first words while sipping my second cup of coffee at 4:34 a.m. As of this
posting, I have completed most of three
scenes and 1703 words. According to the NaNo Stats, at this rate I will complete my novel
on November 30.
But I have to finish sooner than that! And I’ll reveal why
in another post. More on my NaNo progress another day.
Below is a snippet of my 2012 time/word/pages tracker. I will
fill this year’s table every day, each time I write that day. It is my
accountability tool to myself. If I have 0 words one day, I will see that every
time I pull this up to update. I hate 0’s!
The final column is the cumulative total, by day, to finish
with 50K in 30 days. Each time I write, I log in how long I wrote, what the
word and page count was at the end of the session, and how many total words I
wrote that day. As long as my 4th column word count was more than
the Running Total each day, I knew I’d make it. The Running Total column is
what it takes to finish 50K in 30 days. I need to be ahead of that schedule.
I am eager to start filling in this year’s tracker! Here’s
how I began last year.
|
Date
|
Time Started/Ended
|
Total Hours
|
Words/Pages
|
Day’s word count
|
Run
Tot.
Min.
Req.
|
|
Nov.
1
|
3:33
a.m.-5:13
9:55
a.m.-11:55
5:45
p.m.-6:11
|
~
1.5
~
2
~
.5
|
1723/7
pages
4047/11
pages
4516/18
pages
|
4516
|
1667
|
|
Nov.
2
|
3:30
a.m.-5:32
3:40
p.m.-4:45
|
~
2
~
2
|
6792/28
pages
7872/32
pages
|
3356
|
3334
|
|
Nov.
3
|
5:30
a.m.-6:00
6:50
a.m.-7:30
10:40
a.m.-11:17
|
~
.5
~
.75
~
.5
|
8468/34
pages
9385/38
pages
10,132/41
pages
|
2260
|
5001
|
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