My Predictions
I'm going to estimate a few things for the inaugural Southern Cross Novel Challenge.
At the moment, the statistics on the KiwiWriters site reads something like this:
- there are 80 who people have registered on the site
- of these, 40 are signed up to the SoCNoC challenge
Obviously, not everyone will complete the challenge (here's hoping they do though), but I predict we'll get a good percentage of finishers. Basically, because the whole thing is new, everyone is getting really excited, therefore I think the percentage will be higher this year than in later years.
So, I hope that 50% of that 40 will finish, therefore, 20 people will get their gold stars and certificates. That also means that from those 20 people, we'll have written something over 1,000,000 words!
Wow, that's a lot of words.
Of course, it might be higher (fingers crossed) or lower than this, but remember this figure also doesn't include the people who write 5,000, 500 or 50 words rather than 50,000!
There's going to be lots of bashing on keyboards in the next few weeks, both in New Zealand and abroad. Ah, happy days!
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