That’s write… er… right! NaNoWriMo 2024 has begun, and this means one thing: “Update posts”! In the past, I published this kind of post on a daily basis, but that was before I became a full-fledged “night owl”! As such a “bird”, my writing schedule doesn’t always jive with NaNoWriMo’s Web site for updating word counts. Traditionally, the NaNo Web site required all word counts for a particular day to be posted by midnight of that day. Midnight is often when I start writing, so that isn’t usually a deadline I can meet. To combat this problem, I’ve decided to continue doing something I started to do during July 2024’s Camp NaNoWriMo: writing “weekly” update posts as opposed to the “daily” posts I used to publish. So…
Every Saturday, I’ll publish one of these weekly update posts, which will work out well since the last day of this year’s NaNoWriMo event ends on a Saturday. As always, I’ll continue using the same format I’ve been using for such posts — with the only difference being that I’ll list a week’s worth of data instead of just a day’s worth as I’ve done in the past. So… Without further ado, here are the stats for this “week” — from 11/01/24 to 11/02/24:
Friday, 11/01/24 — 3760 words/12 pages
Saturday, 11/02/24 — 2663 words/7 pages for a total of 6423 words/19 pages
As with the first weekly update post back in July, the main reason why the daily word counts are so high for each of these first two days of November is because I am participating in November’s GWIC (Global Write-in Crawl), which always takes place during the first full weeked of a NaNoWriMo event. It’s an event that is extremely FUN, AND it never fails to help me INCREASE my word count tremendously, which is definitely a great thing at the beginning of the month! The “jump-start” in word count that GWIC gives me early in the month is VERY helpful, especially towards the end of the month when I often struggle to “meet my quota” of at least 1,667 words per day.
So, there you have it: my first weekly update for NaNoWriMo’s main event in “NaNo-vember” 2024! If you’re a writer, you should consider participating in a GWIC event — OR all of them, like I do! Need more information about GWIC? Please don’t hesitate to contact me about this event! I’d love to welcome you aboard the GWIC train for a FUN writing adventure in the future!!