Statistics

Of my twenty-eight buddies, some of who were hold-overs from last year, four have completed National Novel Writing Month successfully. One of my buddies is all the way up to 80K already. I'm sure that I have at least four Facebook compatriots who have announced their finishing (it all a bit ambiguous as I can't see their word totals on Facebook).

Having given it some great deal of thought, I think much of this disparity has to do with age. Most of my buddies are my own age. When we write to one another a common theme is what to do with kiddos when we write. Facebookers are primarily teens and twenties. What do they know about juggling kids, work, spouses, and writing.

Still, I envy them. I wish I had been writing 50K novels at twenty-three.