So, I’ve completed one more NaNoWriMo successfully. I still have a long way to go on the second space opera; I’m only about halfway through, and I already know some of the scenes I’ve already written will need some reworking. I am not entering my totals on the official NaNoWriMo website for the first time in a long time; I’ve not been happy with the direction the official site/organization have taken over the last few years, and I don’t expect that will change.

I’ve made some interesting discoveries, such as the fact that description, exposition and basic banter between established characters are the easiest things for me to dictate, while more “choreographed” elements (action scenes, high-drama conversations, etc) are easier to type. For dictation, my preference is to do seven minutes at a stretch, then clean up punctuation and misheard words for seven minutes or less, and then repeat the dictation/cleanup cycle.

If you’re curious, here’s what my wordcount totals by day looks like:

Date	Words Per Day
11/1/2020	3332
11/2/2020	2575
11/3/2020	1444
11/4/2020	0
11/5/2020	0
11/6/2020	1257
11/7/2020	3174
11/8/2020	1805
11/9/2020	1432
11/10/2020	1920
11/11/2020	1668
11/12/2020	1441
11/13/2020	952
11/14/2020	593
11/15/2020	612
11/16/2020	1845
11/17/2020	2026
11/18/2020	1927
11/19/2020	0
11/20/2020	2004
11/21/2020	1120
11/22/2020	2940
11/23/2020	1576
11/24/2020	2440
11/25/2020	2119
11/26/2020	1950
11/27/2020	1933
11/28/2020	1957
11/29/2020	3264
11/30/2020	843