Math-geekery ahead: faint-brained stay away

Disclaimer: I am not trying to offend anyone with the title of this post, I just found it amusing and everybody knows my sense of humour is appalling. Please don't throw anything harder than pillows at me.

I've just realised that my blog is a fuzzy mess of anything that might cross my mind every now and again. Ha, every time I look through blog listings or someone asking for advice in starting a blog, I find people saying that they should pick some theme for their blog and post only stuff related to that, since otherwise people from different interests groups might be hard to attract by saying "well, it's about me" (which makes a whole lot more sense than I would like to admit).

But, damnit, I do so many things out of the book and I see so many things out of the box, so why should I now begin giving a damn about what other people say? Besides, I only have a handful of people reading this blog (maybe because I don't advertise it correctly - maybe because of the reasons listed above, meh), and they seem to be happy with what I have to offer (thanks, you guys! I like brackets!).

After doing that fretting for the day, I'm going to announce that yesterday, I was as productive as ever. In this case, that means that I have breached the 100,000 word line, which also means that I have now won NaNoWriMo twice. In one single day, being yesterday, I wrote three chapters, and today would have to write the same amount of chapters to catch up with my goal of at-least-a-chapter-per-day.

Some statistics from the month up to this point:

Total number of words: 107,179

Total number of chapters: 16

Average number of words in one chapter: 6,657.25

Highest number of words per chapter: 14,360 (chapter 10, that killer)

Lowest number of words per chapter: 2,907 (chapter 15)

Average number of words written per day: 5,641

Highest number of words written per day: 16,422 (yesterday, according to the NaNo stats for my word count on the site)

Lowest number of words written per day: 383 (on the fifth of November)

I think those are stats enough to record my progress for now. Oh, but then again, I find myself, too, interested in the approximate estimation of the length of my novel and how much of it I have done now and how much of it will most likely be done at the end of November - and how long will it take me to finish it.

Well, seeing as my novel will have 44 chapters of which 16 are now done, and the average word count per chapter is 6,657.25, that means I have 106,516 words for sixteen chapters over 292,919 for 44 (shhhhit, that will take some serious editing to make readable-sized) done, as an estimation, which would make... a depressing 36.4% done.

Now, this is when my math head starts closing up (and I must tell you, with great satisfaction, that I received my math exam back with a shiny 80% labelled on it - a whole 10% better than my midyear, I seriously need to throw a party or something). What do I need to do to calculate how long would it take for me to write the remaining 63.6%? Oh, I guess I could do it that way (and math-nerds, please correct my calculations if they're incorrect):

If the estimation for the novel length is 292,919 words, and I have written 106,519 of that, which means I still have at least a remaining 185,672 words to write (which is, just as a quick check, 63.5% as referred back to the original estimation - close enough). If I continue to write at a rate of 5,641 words per day, it will take me a rounded 33 days more to finish this novel. In order to finish this novel for/during November 30th, I would have to write at a mind-boggling rate of 16,879 words (as rounded) a day - something that just will not happen!

I am interested and simultaneously annoyed about these statistics, sure, it's fun to know how you're doing, but somehow depressingly so, when the statistics tell you so directly and irrevocably that you're not even at the mid-point - not even close. And I've written so bloody much! Someone (my characters, most likely) will suffer for this!

It's their fault, anyway, for giving me such a long story to write. *grumbles*

Based on these statistics, any techno-handy kid want to build a cute little application to show me my progress on a flowchart, just to make me feel better? Anyone? Yoo-hoo? ... I swear, sometimes it feels like I'm sitting in an empty waiting room with a guard rolling his eyes at me for babbling loudly to myself. *snerk*

Annnyway, going to stop procrastinating and making love to my calculator in favour of toddling off to the kitchen and procrastinating by making myself a cup of coffee, taking some headache-meds (you know, I don't especially enjoy NUMBERS, I just like KNOWING) and chasing the numbers out from my brain with a rake (if needed).

Sorry for the wall of text~