The Idiot Wind

I would write something here, but my hands are rigid from RSI. Maybe I'll update this with a By The Numbers thing tomorrow, but for now I've got Queen ready on the playlist (as appears to be tradition) and some obnoxiously loud squealing to do.

Good luck to all of you still in. This feeling is worth persevering for!

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I'm just about done squealing now, so here is my novel 'The Thingy', by the numbers.

Number of words - 50,444
Chapters - 22
Days spent writing - 17
Most productive day - June 20th with 5,894 words
Number of times the write or die website was used - over 75
Average typing speed - 25wpm
Average length of typing session - 30 minutes
Hours spent at work during past three weeks - 135
Number of 50,000 word novels I theoretically could have written in that time, if I went pro and wrote instead of worked - 4.05
Chances of that happening - 0.0
Characters that found the smell of cranberries to be an aphrodisiac- 1
Principal characters that disappeared inexplicably from the main plot after 47,500 words - 3
Approximate proportion of the plot worked out after 35,000 words - 80%
Words written about Brean Down Caravan Park - 4,500
Words written before my protagonist had a name - 6,763
Number of times that I was tempted to have my secondary school geography teacher destroy all of humanity in order to avoid the necessity of a proper plot - 2

Thanks for inviting/challenging me to do this. It's definitely not something I'd have ever chose to do normally, and perhaps if my fingers recover, I'll give it a go next year too.