#halfmilwordy

[isabelcanasauthor]

8-2-2024

currently trying to write 500,000 words between dec 1, 2023 and nov 30, 2024 (a full calendar year, but ending on nanowrimo). after tallying up June's words, am up to 197,588, currently ~94k words short of my goal.

i am a whole novel's worth of words short of my goal, whoooopsie

better get back to it if I want to catch up

x

[redangel19]

NaNoWriMo 2021

I just finished up NaNoWriMo 2021. Well two days ago I did. My Novembers have been filled with writing since 2007 when I first learned about it. The early years I barely pushed out the 50k, usually writing many of the words the last two days of the month. As the years progressed I ended up writing more, learning how to work around job schedules, college schedules, babies who grew into toddlers, who then grew up to pre teens and teens that have tried the young writers program once or twice. 

As the years progressed the amount of words progressed. A few years ago I really focused on using November NaNo as a finishing month, where I would working on finishing my WIPs that I worked on earlier in the year that never were finished. WIPs from years priors. Random outlines that never made it anywhere. 

I have been over achieving (OA) for the last few years, focusing on things of that nature. 2019 I tried for 300,000 and I came in just over 295k. Based on a program that inflated my word count and I didn’t realize until the last day at zero hour. I tried for that number again last year and once again this past November. I learned about MilWordy challenge, the challenge to write 1,000,000 words in a year. I thought hey I could do that. I didn’t succeed in doing that in 2019-2020 or again in 2020-2021. I tried to use November as a jumping off point and I still managed to miss it. 

This year though. When October was looming I wasn’t sure if I had what it took to even OA this past November because of the crappy year I had and the fact that writing wasn’t happening in the smallest amount. Yet, November. November opened up a world that I haven’t felt in such a long time. 

I decided to try for the Half-MilWordy this year. From November 1 2021 to October 31 2022, my intention is to write 500,000. I have currently written 227,021 words. I think this year might be the year I can do it. I figured I would put this out here. If I do as well as I hope then I will up my numbers again. 

[sofipasternack]

MilWordY

So while I was wasting time on the NaNoWriMo forums this year, I came across a challenge called MilWordY, which is writing a million words in a year.

Sounds fun!

If anyone is interested in the math, it averages out to about 2,740 words per day. Which is like doing double-NaNo for an entire year.

Sounds... less fun.

BUT!

This year, I’m going to do a HalfMilWordY. The math on that one is 1,370 words per day. WAY more doable, especially with graduate school and work and all that fun stuff.

I started on November 1, 2019 and will end on October 31, 2020.

November word count: 79,224