Every November comes with a writing challenge. November is "National Novel Writing Month", known as NaNoWriMo, challenging all of us to write a novel in one month. I keep getting it mixed up with the name for Nanaimo bars, which are quite delicious, by the way.
So how many words did my friends and I write? I asked them.
- Mike says he writes 900 words a week. So I estimate that in a 30 day month, he writes 3857.14 ( 900/7 * 30).
- Crystal wrote "over 60k". So I'll put here down for 60,001, the lowest number I can be sure of.
- Shevi wrote 50,921.
- I wrote 3422 words, but at least I feel like my story now has some meat to it.
information on NaNoWriMo: nanowrimo.org
Shevi's books on Amazon: keywords=shevi+arnold
information on Nanaimo bars: wiki/Nanaimo_bars
I decided to do some economic projections. I don't know exactly how many words your novel has written to date, so I'll just use the number of words you wrote in the month of November, 3422. I went out and looked at a lot of sites to find out the average word count for a novel. One of these is:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_count
Though these sites vary a bunch, it appears that an average length is about 75,000 words. Your 3422 words is approximately 4.6% of a novel.
Remembering that you will sell your movie rights for the book for $20 million, this means that your writing in November earned you $920,000. And this is, of course, not counting the actual revenue from sales of the book. Not too shabby! :)
cool!!!
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