Buck Fifty: Addendum

Well! I did it! I successfully wrote a minimum of 150 words each day in November. While I didn’t have to post every day, as. long I wrote the required amount, as it turned out, I ended up writing 30 separate blogs! Here’s some interesting facts about the month. Or, at least, interesting to me facts. 

My shortest post was on Day 7, The Future Looks Brighter Today, at just 180 words. 

The longest was also one of my favourites, Murder, They Streamed, at 732 words. However, a large part of that was actually written over the course of the summer, and just edited in to new material. I actually only wrote around 300 new words that day. For the rest of the math in this post, I am taking an educated estimate of 311 words for Murder, They Streamed in relation to the challenge requirements. Adjusted, that would make Christmas Started Tonight In Ireland the longest, at 678 words. 

Only two posts broke 500 new words published, Christmas Started Tonight In Ireland, and the post immediately preceding that, Teaching Inis, at 503 words. Both were written in the final week. 

I published 8306 words in November. I wrote a lot more, but they got deleted or edited out before posting. That’s an average of 276.86 words per day. The mean word count was 251. That is to say, if ordered by word count, there are 15 posts of less than or equal to 251 words, and 15 posts with a greater than 251 word count. By coincidence, Day 16, Distance Grandparenting is the post with 251 words. 

At the time I’m writing this, My Nightly Ritual has the most views, at 41. Though that was posted on Day 4 and has had all month to accumulate that number. By contrast, The End Of All Now from Day 28 already has 37 views. 

If you did, thanks for joining me on this process. I really enjoyed this month, and hopefully it’s gotten me back into writing. Only time will tell. My next project, I think, will be a video I really want to do. I’ll post about it here if I succeed.