Minneapolis Rocked NaNoWriMo!

Everyone knows that NaNoWriMo ended last week, but have you seen the stats about this year's participants? It's amazing! Stats for NaNoWriMo are split into two categories: Main and the Young Writers Program. For NaNoWriMo Main, there were 256,618 participants in 2011! Up from 2010's 200,530 participants. And 36,744 of those writers completed their goal of 50,000 words! Everyone wrote a total of 3,074,068,466 words!!!

Moving on to the NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program, there were 81,040 participants in 2011, up from 2010's 68,710! There were 16,334 writers who completed their goals and everyone wrote a total of 368,143,078 words!
These numbers are absolutely astounding and we couldn't be more thrilled for the writing community. We're looking forward to reading some of these masterpieces in the years to come!
But to be honest, the stats that I love most are for the Top 50 NaNoWriMo Cities (according to Google Analytics, based on number of November visits from these fine places). And the reason? Out of ALL the cities in the WORLD, Minneapolis made the list at #12. We couldn't be more proud.


1. New York 77,947
2. London 62,286
3. Seattle 55,205
4. Toronto 46,413
5. Sydney 46,390
6. Los Angeles 45,806
7. Chicago 42,720
8. Melbourne 40,588
9. Portland 38,898
10. Denver 37,972
11. San Francisco 36,808
12. Minneapolis 28,521
13. Austin 28,095
14. Houston 25,863
15. Washington 25,812
16. Brisbane 23,033
17. Calgary 22,294
18. Edmonton 21,618
19. Ottawa 21,583
20. San Diego 19,815
21. Helsinki 19,793
22. (not set) 19,435
23. Phoenix 18,556
24. Salt Lake City 18,347
25. Vancouver 18,082
26. Boston 17,850
27. Philadelphia 17,664
28. Columbus 17,558
29. Tucson 17,551
30. Kensington 17,262
31. Ballinger 16,159
32. Dublin 16,022
33. Dallas 15,761
34. Albuquerque 15,069
35. Perth 14,949
36. St Louis 14,910
37. Auckland 14,873
38. Edinburgh 14,575
39. Montreal 14,260
40. Singapore 13,993
41. Colorado Springs 13,933
42. Indianapolis 13,680
43. Manchester 13,549
44. Adelaide 13,477
45. Sacramento 13,256
46. San Antonio 13,170
47. Atlanta 13,065
48. Grand Rapids 12,939
49. San Jose 12,925
50. Madison 12,650