Twilight couldn't be happier with all her new shipfics!
Well, the totals have been counted, spreadsheets have been worked and the words have been verified. Folks, it’s time to reveal the winners of National Pony Writing Month!
First, some general statistics!
1,595,233 words!
NaPoWriMo 2017 Total Words Written
53,174 words a day!
Collective Average Daily Word Count
49 authors
validated their word counts!
24 authors
accomplished their personal NaPoWriMo goal set at the beginning of November!
19 authors
wrote over 50,000 words, winning both NaPoWriMo and NaNoWriMo!
"Ponies who shipfic together, stay together. Well known scientific fact!"
This group endured the hardships of NaPoWriMo and pushed themselves to their limit, stretching every day to make sure they delivered something epic and huge for you!
I give you, your NaPoWriMo Winners!
75K+ Winners
Cinnabar2003 - A Setting Sun, a Rising Twilight - 105,115 words - Overachiever Award for writing over double his personal word goal!
Justice3442 - Star Wars: My Little Sith Lord, Luna the Butcher, Love Call of the Sirens & Additional Stories - 78,925 words
Novel-Idea - On the Brewing of Saddle Arabian Teas, Diamonds Amidst the Snow & My Kind of Crazy - 78,888 words
LaWombat - The Fairy Tale Fiasco - 76,801 words
50K+ Winners
Impossible Numbers - Magical Deathmatch - 70,889 words
AnchorsAway - Passages - 67,819 words
Libertydude - Night Jobs, Two Scoops, Cranky and Steve's Final Adventure & Additional Stories - 60,436 words
cursedchords - Sun & Moon Act II: A Crown Divided - 56,618 words
Drag Orion - Long Distance Friendship - 53,678 words
The Albinocorn - Spectacular Seven - 53,530 words
XombieSlayr - The Book Of Friendship - 52,642 words
PastCat - Parrothead in Paradise: A Ponies After People Story - 52,037 words
Rune Singer - The Book of Ages - 50,852 words
Czar_Yoshi - The Olden World - 50,722 words
Miller Minus - Soundtrack To Our Vacant Lives - 50,382 words
Kinrah - Predictions & Prophecies - 50,244 words
CoffeeMinion - To Serve in Hell - 50,163 words
PortalJumper - Alicornae: The Legend of Starlit Sky - 50,078 words
TaichiKeaton - Fallen Wrath - 50,033 words
25K+ Winners
Fangren - Synchrony & Sunset in Ponyville - 32,302 words
Ricardo Gomez - Dashed Rainbows - 25,169 words
10K+ Winners
Undome Tinwe - Passions in the Fading Sunlight & Additional Stories - 21,354 words
Madame Ponka - Lunaris & The Final Seconds In Eternity - 20,389 words
Nighthawk - War for Equestria - 10,052 words
Late Entry Winners
RQK - Reflections - 50,865 words
"There's nothing more magical than a good shipfic..."
This group fought the good fight and still pushed themselves to stretch for that word count! No matter how close or how far, they did their very best and they won the spirit of NaPoWriMo!
I give you, your NaPoWriMo Participants!
20K+ Participants
rosebug - Two Truths and a Lie - 46,954
JayMan155 - The Terrible Tale of Aqua Spark - 42,181 words
Cakestealer - Friends with a Spy - 26,401 words
Takarashi282 - Ballad of the Dawn - 24,363 words
10K+ Participants
SG Command - Of Friendships and Warships - 17,471 words
AsiagoUnicorn - Cake Walk - 13,394 words
N3k1dsk1llz - A Week of Sunset & Untitled Story - 11,663 words
Brony250 - The Gift of Hearth's Warming - 11,384 words
Budhi Agung - Glorious Ectonia - 10,518 words
1K+ Participants
Lily Dawn - With The Face Of A Porcelain Doll
Blade Trail - The Reaper
Fluttercheer - The Strange Case of Dinky Hooves' Cutie Mark Curiosity
Dash Aradele - Heartsong and the Unfinished Business
Monsoon - Royal Guards: Serve and Protect
Mystic Thunder - My Little Reclaimer: Friendship Never Dies
Corvoblu - The Sun's Sickness
Gray Suede - The Fast Food and the Furious
EnergeticRider - Meet the Sirens!
Kiarla - The Last Element
Vesper Glaive - The Edge of Elsewhere
Late Participants
AJVasquezbrony48 - The Price of Being a Princess
Eroraf86 - Break of Day
"I wonder why Twilight always writes shipfics shipping herself with either Rarity or me?"
Thank you all for your incredible hard work. All of you did an amazing job making this the best NaPoWriMo ever! Don't worry, there's more on the way with upcoming talks about titles, cover art and synopses! I'll see you all then!
NaPoWriMo 2017 Author Interview Posts:
"Hmmm... who to ship next..."
