February Sweeps, Two Weeks In

Whoops, I forgot to do this update back on the 14th when I was supposed to. I was posting podcast episodes and pictures of my toys. I can't do it all, you know. Okay, time for some more comparison.

So, after day fourteen, here's what it looks like:

Rish: 16,386
Big: 16,306

I find it really interesting how extremely similar our word counts are after two full weeks. We're within 80 words of each other. How can that be? Especially when Rish has had several days that are above, and sometimes well above, 2,000 words in one day. I've never even come close to getting that many words. Actually, I'm starting to wonder if I can trust his total word count. Did he forget to add one of his days in? Let me list out the daily word count for each of us, both the first week, and then this past week:

Rish 1st: 1458 Big 1st: 1078
Rish 2nd: 1018 Big 2nd: 1160
Rish 3rd: 1335 Big 3rd: 1119
Rish 4th: 1531 Big 4th: 1137
Rish 5th: 301 Big 5th: 1088
Rish 6th: 1536 Big 6th: 1609
Rish 7th: 2063 Big 7th: 1007
Rish 8th: 1120 Big 8th: 1025
Rish 9th: 1245 Big 9th: 1189
Rish 10th: 1625 Big 10th: 1191
Rish 11th: 1452 Big 11th: 1067
Rish 12th: 2877 Big 12th: 1176
Rish 13th: 844 Big 13th: 1049
Rish 14th: 1702 Big 14th: 1416

Okay, something's definitely got to be wrong. I've only written more than Rish on four out of fourteen days. Most days he beats me by hundreds of words, a couple times by more than a thousand. He has to have missed a day when adding up his word count or something. I'm going to add it up to, to see if I can confirm it.

Okay, I added them up, and found that Rish's total is in fact 20,107. We're not actually that close at all. Somehow, on his post for the 14th, Rish drops his total from 18,000 down to 16,000. Probably just to make me feel better, because he was stomping all over me so hard in this (non) contest. Very nice of you Rish.

So, he's better with writing, but I'm better at math, at least. So, I'm winning in some way. Here's the actual totals after day fourteen:

Rish: 20,107
Big: 16,306

That makes a little more sense to me now. I was starting to think that maybe it was like the moral to that tortoise and the hare fable. You know, "slow and steady wins the race." Me keeping at it, hitting my goal every day will add up in the end, and equal up to Rish's gaudy totals. But Rish isn't like the hare, who would take long naps to make up for the times when he was running super fast. Instead, he's just a racing turtle, or a racing snail.

He follows the motto "fast and steady wins the race even more." He has big days and regular days, but has only fallen under a thousand words twice in the entire month, despite one thousand words a day being my goal and not his.

So, there you go. That's how things are going after two weeks of this writing event. We're both doing pretty well (though one maybe a little better than the other), and no one has fallen on their face yet. That's pretty great if you ask me. A success.