One week later

The stats have hardly budged for a whole week. I can't be judgemental. Mine haven't changed at all!

Current average words per person:

Perth North: 14963.33    29%
Dekalb:        15727.56     31%

DeKalb lead. Both regions seem to be falling further behind target.
Today, my time is November 24. Ideal count by midnight of November 23 would be 38341.
We all have a LOT of writing to do!

DeKalb Pulls Away

Oh dear, Perthites, the DeKalbian lead has increased.

Perth:North - 10,390.69 words per person
DeKalb       - 11,024.33 words per person

That's a margin of 633.64 words per person in DeKalb's favour.
Worse news for Perth. Thus far, every time I've checked, the numbers have been close enough that our percentage finished stats have been identical. No longer. The DeKalb crowd now have a 2% lead.

To the shame of both regions, the percentages are 20 & 22, at a time when they should be at or beyond 50.
Tsk!

Even Pace, Similar Space

Right now, the lead is still held by Dekalb, with a margin of 342.37 words per person more than Perth, so we've only managed to gain back about 6 words per person.

It's like this:

Perth North - 10,082.29 p/p
Dekalb        - 10,424.66 p/p

Just by the by, as we head into the 15th, we should all be at 50% or thereabouts by tonight (25k), but both regions are averaging 20%. It's not the most heartening statistic.

I am not helping Perth's case at all, having failed to add a single word to my pathetic tally of barely more than a third of one day's worth. Unless I can finally get my head into novel mode, the best thing I could do for my home region this stage is to move to another region.

Lead Shift

I don't know! Turn your back for a couple of days and the Corn Munchers creep up on you.
Dekalb have grabbed the lead sometime between now and my last post.
As I write:

Perth:North - 9,586.86 per person
Dekalb -        9,935.33 per person

That gives Dekalb a current lead of 348.47 words per person.

I'm not helping matters. Haven't written a word in days. Not in my novel anyway.
Ah, Life. Why do you always want to mess with me in November?

Number Crunching

A very brief update, just to work out what the latest numbers mean.
As at 12.44 am Western Australian time, Monday November 11, average words per person are:

Perth:North - 7,934.06
Dekalb        - 7,561.46

giving Perth the slender lead of 372.60 words per person. Bear in mind that Perth is a few hours ahead of Dekalb, so that makes the real margin even tighter. In real terms, if we could calculate words per person per hour (well, we could, but I'm too tired for that right now) it is possible Dekalb might even be ahead.

At this point, it's a close competition, but both regions are, on average, woefully behind on word count against the ideal of 1667 words per day. At close of November 10, you'd need to have done 16,670 to be on target. So, statistically, neither region has even managed to do half as much as the projected average.

Neck and neck!

My apologies for the lack of updates the last couple of days. My life has been temporarily hijacked by unavoidable non-NaNo intrusions, sadly to the continuing failure of my own contribution to the word tally.

The margin is very tight right now.
Having just checked the widget, and done the math, average words per person now stand at:

Perth (North):  6523.67
Dekalb:            6558.47

So, Dekalb still lead, but by the tiny Margin of 34.8 words per person.

If the Aussie contingent can just manage an extra couple of sentences each today, we can catch them.
An additional hour per day each over the weeend, and we could even snatch back the lead by a small margin. Unless, of course, the Dekalbians also put on a spurt over the weekend. Which they well may do.

I should also point out that, from where I sit, we're well into day 9, so in theory, we ought all to be past the 13, 300 mark by now and aiming to hit 15k before bed. (15,003 for the nit-pickers).
Allowing for today being almost half gone, Perth folk should  be at around 14k already.
Which means that both regions are slightly less than half way to where they would be, if we'd all been keeping up with the NaNo daily average count.

Time to pull up our collective socks. Me especially. Even a 10k weekend (unlikely, given I have to be out most of today) won't get me caught up. Every word counts, though. I'll do what I can today, and try for a busy Sunday at the keyboard. I may not have been writing, but I've been putting thought into what to write. Hopefully that will make for speed once I get back into it.

Wednesday update.

U-oh. The widget makes it look fairly even, but I've just done the math, and those pesky Dekalbians seem to have stolen the lead already.

Current average words per person, rounded to 2 decimal places:
Perth North:  4618.69
Dekalb:         4954.26


Type faster, Perth!

ETA: The margin by which they lead is 335.57 words per person.

Word Wars

At time of posting the average words per person stats are pretty close.

Perth North:  4,419.835
Dekalb:         4,171.745

which puts the Australians ahead by a very narrow margin of 248.09 words per writer.

Far too soon to call it, but far too close for my liking.

I had best go do my bit to up the ante.