NaNoWriMo November 2021!

Welcome back! Here’s my recap of NaNoWriMo 2021. After skipping out on NaNoWriMo in 2020, I was determined to make it happen this year. And, boy, was it worth it!

As of November 1, 2021, I had 20,986 words written.

Personal Goal: Write at least 20,000 new words for book #3, but let’s see what happens.

Full disclosure: Never in a million years did I think I would ever reach 50,000 words in a month.

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Day 1 – 1,786 new words, one untimed session and three timed sessions totaling 45 minutes.

Day 2 – 2,089 new words, 50 minutes writing time.

Day 3 – 1,919 new words, 45 minutes writing time.

Day 4 – 1,686 new words, 45 minutes writing time.

Day 5 – 1,948 new words, 50 minutes writing time.

Day 6 – 1,793 new words, 50 minutes writing time.

Day 7 – 2,229 new words, 50 minutes writing time.

Day 8 – 1,688 new words, 45 minutes writing time.

Day 9 – 1,639 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 10 – 1,686 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 11 – 1,687 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 12 – 1,738 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 13 – 1,891 new words, 50 minutes writing time.

Day 14 – 2,102 new words, 45 minutes writing time.

Day 15 – 1,835 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 16 – 1,846 new words, 45 minutes writing time.

Day 17 – 1,835 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 18 – 1,799 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 19 – 1,857 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 20 – 2,010 new words, 75 minutes writing time.

Day 21 – 1,631 new words, 35 minutes writing time.

Day 22 – 1,662 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 23 – 1,596 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 24 – 1,617 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 25 – 1,718 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 26 – 1,726 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 27 – 1,573 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 28 – 1,603 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 29 – 1,752 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Day 30 – 1,854 new words, 40 minutes writing time.

Total for November 2021: 53,795 new words.

Current word count: 74,781 words.

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Final Thoughts

Holy shit, I’m just blown away. I’m still stunned that this actually happened. I won NaNoWriMo! For the first time ever!

For those who may be curious, I hit 50,000 words on November 28th.

I went back to my old blog posts. The last November session I participated in was 2019, and I wrote 25,101 words during that session.

I doubled my output for this one. Wow!

My friend Ren continues to be a huge cheerleader for me. They are amazing!

I stuck with my plan from Camp NaNo and sat down every single day before starting work if possible, and then definitely after dinner until I met or exceeded my daily word count.

I’m also a Google Docs convert now.

Al chuckles that he always heard the din of my fingers on the keyboard for 30 days straight. It’s a beautiful sound.

I hope to finish this first draft for certain during Camp NaNoWriMo April 2022, if not sooner than that. I’m excited to continue Camp NaNo in April and July, and then work toward beating this goal in November 2022. This is the book I started during NaNoWriMo 2014. I have several other novels in various stages!

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Have you done NaNoWriMo in November before?

Have you done Camp NaNoWriMo before?

Let me know what you think!

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Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂