Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
I take it by the complete silence surrounding this project since the end of the first week that it's going really, really well for everyone else. I'm starting to think that the rest of you jokers are laughing at me from the sidelines while I hammer out another shitty novel for no reason. But maybe, just maybe, there's at least one other person who's still struggling through this little exercise and will be a little more motivated now that I've finished.
Tomorrow, I'll dedicate my time to a more worthwhile activity. But for now, I'm going to listen to Queen a little bit longer.
EDIT: For the traditional "by the numbers" conclusion:
Words: 50,066
Characters with no spaces: 225,385 (beating the previous record of 222,551)
Chapters: 15
Number of chapters titled "Chapter 3": 2
Longest chapter: Chapter 7 (8,131)
Worst chapter: Chapter 7
Shortest chapter: Chapter 6 (1,034)
Actual time in the contest: 22 days, 27 minutes
Hours worked at my job during the contest: 167.5
Hours slept during the contest: 160.5
Hours spent driving to work: 17 hours
Actual time spent writing: 22 hours, 18 minutes
Procrastination time: 161 hours (6 days, 17 hours)
Longest writing session: 3 hours, 33 minutes on May 22
Shortest writing session: 5 minutes on May 19
Most efficient writing session: 1522 words completed in 32 minutes on May 17 (47.63 WPM)
Least efficient writing session: 1576 words completed in 57 minutes on May 1 (27.65 WPM)
Average typing speed: 38.89 WPM (Most efficient typing session in 2009 came in at 38.75 WPM)
Fuck: 112 (breaks the previous record of 106 in Al's War)
Shit: 45
Ass: 10
Bitch: 11
Number of characters named after Pixar characters: 12 (Wally, Russell, Sally, Dot, Michael, Marlon, Remy, Randall, Shelby, Buddy, Andy, Carl)
Well, I have to say that was a difficult one to get through. For this one, I decided to write in a new genre than the previous three. I would call this one a science fiction/alternate reality story, whereas the other three were kind of existential in nature.
So, we've got a little more than 24 hours until the end of May. Will there be two finishers as I predicted? Perhaps more?
posted by Adam at 11:40 PM
5 Comments:
31 016 is my current word count.
Congrats on another win Adam I only made it to a little over 4000 words before I gave up. Full-time work + part-time school + novel was a little too much for me.
I think next year you should be in charge of updating this blog with the word counts. Steve is clearly busy doing other more important and interesting things.
I agree with you, Steph. Resign, Smith.
Keep going, Ashley. You'll make it.
that's great, well done!
I've just restarted mine, and am currently at 596 words, it has got a great plot though.
50 025. Done.
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