Microsoft Word will tell you how long you've been working on a specific document. For my latest novel, the final installment in a trilogy, it's telling me 18,880 minutes (315 hours). I started writing it in February and finished in mid-September. That's for 274,000 words, and doesn't include the time I've spent in editing and revisions since then (and will spend, before it is ready for publication).
I am planning on writing a novel during NaNoWriMo this year, but I'm shooting for a more manageable 60-70k words.
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