The main event of NaNoWriMo has come and gone, and even though I didn’t feel ready for it, I managed to cross the 50,000-word “finish” line. As with many of my other NaNoWriMo “wins”, this one was definitely at the last minute!
In my first post about NaNoWriMo 2022, I mentioned that I was going to be a rebel — by writing a series of short stories that I hoped would “read like a novel”. Well… The first “short” story morphed into a novel! So, I have yet to finish a short story, but that’s another journal entry…
In my (few) posts about my NaNoWriMo progress, I used the following format for updating my official word count here in my journal:
Day # — daily word count (total word count)
Since I posted the first four days in an earlier journal entry, I figured that I would include this information for the last four days of NaNoWriMo 2022:
Day 30 – 3,488 (51,015 total words!)
Day 29 — 1,610 (47,527 total words)
Day 28 — 2,219 words (45,917 total words — Note: I didn’t record this data on 11/27/22.)
Day 26 — 1,979 words (43,698 total words)
I absolutely LOVE the fact that I ended NaNoWriMo 2022 with a total word count that is a PALINDROME: 51015! It just happened! I don’t think I could’ve planned it that way! Well… Maybe I could’ve noticed I was close to a palindrome and then did what I could to end with one… Only I will know for sure!
Since I livened up my first NaNoWriMo 2022 post with some NaNo “swag”, I’m going to do it again — by adding some WINNER’S “swag” to this last NaNoWriMo 2022 post…
And there you have it: PROOF that I am, indeed, a NaNoWriMo 2022 WINNER!