Okay, I'm feeling somewhat pissed despite doing over 3k at the local write-out at a very trendy and hip cafe downtown. Before you get the wrong idea, I am not pissed at the write-out. That was wonderful. I'm pissed at getting one of my messages deleted on a Nanowrimo Yahoo! group. The moderator asked how everyone was doing so I posted my progress. I swear I did not brag (really, I didn't--there are other people doing better than me), but apparently something was wrong with my post.
Do I sound like an angry and destructive person online to you?
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Anyways, I'm currently compiling stats on ages and genres (yeah, yeah, I have copious amounts of spare time) because I read one forum thread requesting people to post their ages and genres so they could see any trends. You can't see any trends just by asking people to post replies. You have to datamine the profiles.
So far, I'm concentrating on the 13-30 age range. Here are some trends I'm noticing (keep in mind that most Nanowrimo participants cluster around the 18-year-old age range):
*The peak for writing fantasy novels occurs at 16 and rapidly drops off. I'm assuming the numbers will be even fewer when I look at the 31-100 year olds.
*Teenagers mainly write fantasy.
*Late twenty-somethings to 30-year-olds like to write literary fiction and other (although fantasy does come a close third).
*Almost four times as many 17-year-olds than 30-year-olds write historical fiction.
*Not very many in the 13-30 age range write erotica or spiritual fiction. In fact, the numbers are too low for me to tell any trend. I wonder if the peak for those genres occurs at a later age or whether the numbers will remain low throughout the age spectrum.
