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Final Results: NaNoWriMo Day 30

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I won NaNoWriMo!

At 11:00pm on November 30, 2021, I snuck in my last words just as the deadline was nearing. Now, I did not finish this novel. I still have a few chapters left. But I did write 50,041 words in the month of November, which is huge for me!

Last year was the first year I won NaNo, after trying it for several years without success. But, last year I wrote almost all the words in the last few days.

Check out this crazy graph from 2020.

One of my goals for this NaNoWriMo was to be more consistent. To be honest, I felt like I had failed, because on November 29th, I was still 10,000 words from reaching my goal, and my graph was very up and down. I was frustrated that I didn’t sit down to write every day, and generally not feeling great about how it went, even though I knew I could make it to the 50,000 goal.

2021 Stats

But actually, if you compare the two graphs, I was way more consistent this year than I was last year. So, definitely progress!

How did it go for you all?

Here are the stats for the last day

Progress:

Day 30 Word Count: 9761

Total Word Count: 50041

Where I Planned to Be: 50000

1667 words per day: 50000

Saturday Snippet: NaNoWriMo Day 27

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Saturday Snippet: NaNoWriMo Day 27

Zenaida stood over the woman. She knew she was not long for this world now. She coughed blood, and her eyes looked like they might start bleeding any minute. Zenaida could feel it. She could feel the silence setting in. She could feel Them coming. She would stay with the woman as long as she could. Zenaida knew there was no one else.

She pulled her mask down lower over her face, letting the top of the beak rest against the bridge of her nose, as if it made her safer to feel it pushed down hard against her. The sick woman whimpered. 

The red poll came first. Zenaida watched it land on the window sill. She had insisted the shutters stay open, even as the family protested. You need to let the darkness out, Zenaida had told them. Instead, they just fled. 

The silence began to descend around them.

Another red poll. Then two chickadees. The kind that showed up in winter, Zenaida knew, and it was balmy summer. She let them keep coming. A blue jay landed on the table and didn’t even look at the food. Several camp robbers fluttered around the jay like little brothers, and the jay just preened itself silently. 

The bigger ones crowded in. Herons and ravens. Even a crane. Zenaida watched it step gingerly into the window, purposefully, and look her in the eye.

When she broke its gaze to look back down, the patient was gone. Not dead. But actually gone. No wonder the family had fled.

Note: This is a small snippet of my current WIP, which I am working on for NaNoWriMo. I am documenting my journey to 50,000 words. I hope you enjoy it! 

Here are today’s stats:

Progress:

Day 27 Word Count: 5008

Total Word Count: 38320

Where I Planned to Be: 44000

1667 words per day: 45009

I am catching up! How is it going for you?