I do like well-designed
charts that display statistical information in an easy-to-absorb format. The
NaNoWriMo folks came up with a couple of nice ones showing how the 2016 winners,
at 50,000 words, stacked up to total participants—those who signed up for the
30 days of writing-writing-writing.
They made up one chart with
generic people figures in different colors for the categories of: Participants, Winners, and Young Writers Program Participants.
According to this chart 11% reached the winners circle.
I would have predicted less
than 20% based on my experience from my first NaNoWriMo in 2010.
What really blew me away were
the Young Writers Program
participants. The youngsters clocked in an impressive 23%.
According to the NaNoWriMo
folks 3,000 virtual classrooms were
set up through the Young Writers Program site. And 2,500 classroom kits were
sent out to educators around the world at no
cost.
Would that explain why the
most popular genre in the multi-colored pie chart was Fantasy? Followed by Young
Adult in second place and Science
Fiction in third place. Those three genres made up nearly half of all
novels written in November.
The next cluster of much
smaller but similarly-sized pie slices contained: Romance, Horror/Supernatural,
and Personal.
Followed by:
Thriller/Suspense, Adventure, and Fanfiction.
Then there’s: Literary, Mystery,
and Mainstream.
Ending with rest of the
varied pieces of the genre pie: Women’s Fiction, LGBT+, Historical, Children’s
Fiction, Satire/Humor, Religious/Spiritual, and Erotic.
I entered with the Mystery
genre in the regional forum of USA ::Iowa
A big “Thank you” goes to SandyInSilvis for being our Municipal
Liaison.
Okay, I’m still wondering
about the Mystery genre’s placement well in the rear of the pack of the pie
chart. Good or Bad?
I guess it’s a moot point if
I don’t go ahead and finish what I started.
Here are the raw numbers—
Participants: 312,074
Winners: 34,555
Young Writers Program Participants: 71,229
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