NaNo 2022 - Final Update!

At 10.41 pm on 27th November my word count for this year's NaNo passed the 50K by a mere eighty-two words. I knew that I'd need two more chapters to finish the story, and I've just finished the first of those to give a new total of 51252. I may make a start on the final chapter this evening, and by tomorrow night the story will be officially complete. Once it's done I'll update the word count thing again, and I'm guessing that I'll need another 1300 words or thereabouts. Here's the winner's badge to make it official:

 

Edit: final count is 53172 - the final chapter ran to 1920 words.

NaNo 2022 - Week 3 Update

Twenty-one chapters in twenty-one days, a grand total of 40211 words, and the finishing line is getting closer! In theory, and according to the stats counter on the official NaNoWriMo website, I should reach 50k on Saturday. As for the story, I can see it concluding between 51k and 52k. Watch this space ...

NaNo 2022 - Week 2 Update

Fourteen chapters are written, and today concludes with a grand total of 28175 words. I'll be doing other things on Wednesday so I may not get as much written, but at least I have a few thousand words as a buffer. If I carry on as I am at the moment, the NaNo site estimates that I should hit 50k on the 25th or 26th :-)

NaNo 2022 - Week 1 Update

I've had a few late starts, a few afternoon naps, and a lot of tea. All of those things have helped to build a current grand total of 13647 words. I've also written one complete chapter each day, which has happened by chance rather than planning. In terms of how this NaNo is progressing in comparison with previous years, I'm forty-three words down on my grand total for Day 7 in 2019. I haven't looked at all of my statistics for earlier than 2019, but I suspect that this year is more or less on par with previous years. Overall, things are plodding along nicely :-)  

NaNo 2022 Day 1

After a much later start than I'd hoped for, I've written the first chapter of this year's novel with a grand total of 1754 words. It's likely to be another late start tomorrow, but hopefully it will be slightly easier going as the week progresses. The first few days tend to be a bit yukky, so I'm not overly concerned by the fact that the progress bar on the official site looks less than wonderful. 

NaNoWriMo 2022

 As it's been a few years since I last took part in the regular NaNo, I've decided to switch genres this time around. Instead of horror/supernatural, I'm having a bash at murder/mystery/crime/thriller, set in the year 1500. To make it official, here's the writer badge for this year:

As always, I'll be updating the word count widget thing, and posting updates after Day 1 and at the end of each week.