Believe it, or not – not a lot of people won at NaNoWriMo. And I thought, if I had, most likely so had anybody else participating… Anyway, here is the statistics:
Copied from the official NaNoWriMo site
For NaNoWriMo main:
- 200,530 participants, up 20% from 2009’s total of 167,150.
- We wrote a total of 2,872,682,109 words up 18% from 2009’s collective word count of 2,427,190,537.
- This averaged out to 13,960 words per person.
- We had 37,479 winners, up 16% from 2009’s total of 32,173.
- This gave us an 18.6% win rate!
For NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program:
- 45,000 participants, up 29% from 2009’s total of 35,000.
- We wrote a total of 262,303,074 words up 58% from 2009’s collective word count of 166,218,038.
- This averaged out to 5,578 words per person.
- We had 11,000 winners, up 58% from 2009’s total of 6,941.
- This gave us an 24% win rate
And here is a list of the published NaNoWriMo authors: click to go to the official site.
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