On Saturday night, this year's novel crossed the invisible 50,000-word finish line. At the 50,000th word, which was and for the curious, my brain shut off, but my fingers continued typing another 151 words on their own.

My 30 Cafes in 30 Days went completely astray thanks to Thanksgiving. It turned out to be 25 Cafes in 27 Days. I'll write more about it in another post.

Otherwise, like the blue squirrel, I'm grinning from Viking helmet to furry tail. I reached the numerical goal, but not The End. There are a few thousand words and countless rewrites and edits separating me from completing the story, but as far as NaNoWriMo is concerned, I'm done.

For my inner statistician, here are some simply fascinating figures (previous year's tally is in parentheses):

Words written: 50,151 (50,140)
Highest one-day count: 4,560 (8,683)
Lowest one-day count: 280 (588)
Percent of novel written on my PDA: 96 (92)
Least productive day of the week: Friday (Sunday)
Number of writing days: 27 (18)
Number of zero-word days: 0 (12)
Cups of coffee consumed (above "normal"): 27 (18)
Pounds of Skittles eaten: 0.5 (2)