YAY!

At 593 words for today already (it being a slow day at work), I have currently hit 35321, or 70.64%! 14679 words to do, at 1631 per day [including today] until the end. I must write as much as I can today before Thanksgiving tomorrow.

EDIT, 1:03 PM: So today's goal is 593 + 1631 = 2224. I'm at 1479 now, which means just 745 more to go. Sarah and Jasmira, finally reconciling after their fight, have returned to their usual snarky banter. On Jasmira's end, the conflict with her boyfriend Devon deepens. Though Sarah and Jasmira are getting along, soon all hell will break loose in Sarah's life with the dreaded Monkey Wrench Scene! Why yes, I do enjoy making my characters suffer.

Special thanks to damsel_ophelia, donals_girl and LoreMistress for frequent cheerleading as I draw nearer to my goal. A simple comment adds a lot to my motivation.

EDIT, 2:56 PM: I'm at 1935 now. I need to post these updates because I am really not very motivated right now. My goal is to write at least 289 more words today and then even more so I can maybe take a day off for Thanksgiving.

YAY!

At 593 words for today already (it being a slow day at work), I have currently hit 35321, or 70.64%! 14679 words to do, at 1631 per day [including today] until the end. I must write as much as I can today before Thanksgiving tomorrow.

EDIT, 1:03 PM: So today's goal is 593 + 1631 = 2224. I'm at 1479 now, which means just 745 more to go. Sarah and Jasmira, finally reconciling after their fight, have returned to their usual snarky banter. On Jasmira's end, the conflict with her boyfriend Devon deepens. Though Sarah and Jasmira are getting along, soon all hell will break loose in Sarah's life with the dreaded Monkey Wrench Scene! Why yes, I do enjoy making my characters suffer.

Special thanks to damsel_ophelia, donals_girl and LoreMistress for frequent cheerleading as I draw nearer to my goal. A simple comment adds a lot to my motivation.

EDIT, 2:56 PM: I'm at 1935 now. I need to post these updates because I am really not very motivated right now. My goal is to write at least 289 more words today and then even more so I can maybe take a day off for Thanksgiving.

Automatic word counters confuse me.

I've been doing my word counting inconsistently. At first I put each day's output in a separate file, then added the days' totals up as I went along. But I have also been keeping one continuous document of every day's output sequentially. Sometimes I have drawn from that for my word counting.

Most recently I've been adding a single day's numbers to my running total, NOT using the continuous document. Just for the heck of it, I decided to paste everything I've written so far into the continuous document and check the word count of that.

I thought I had written 36296.

Open Office's word counter says 38156.

Word's word counter says 37719.

NaNo's official word counter says 37716. Amusingly enough, the NaNo Web site says that the official word counter errs on the generous side.

Anyway, going with NaNo's conservative estimate, I've written 1420 more words than I originally calculated. That brings me effortlessly to 37716/50000, or 75.4% complete.

Let me repeat that so that you can grasp the import of this. I'm over 3/4 of the way done [with the NaNo word count -- not addressing the entire novel here]! I'm also ahead of schedule because I have 8 writing days (11/23, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26, 11/27, 11/28, 11/29, 11/30) left, or over 1/4 of the time.

I'm not going to write any more tonight because I really don't have any motivation. I had to force myself to do job-related work and NaNo-related work today. I have lost much of my concentration due to the excitement and interruption of a day off which is kind of in the middle of the week. I will therefore rest my brain until tomorrow, when I may have more energy to tackle challenging and climactic scenes.

Have a happy T-giving, if you celebrate it.

Automatic word counters confuse me.

I've been doing my word counting inconsistently. At first I put each day's output in a separate file, then added the days' totals up as I went along. But I have also been keeping one continuous document of every day's output sequentially. Sometimes I have drawn from that for my word counting.

Most recently I've been adding a single day's numbers to my running total, NOT using the continuous document. Just for the heck of it, I decided to paste everything I've written so far into the continuous document and check the word count of that.

I thought I had written 36296.

Open Office's word counter says 38156.

Word's word counter says 37719.

NaNo's official word counter says 37716. Amusingly enough, the NaNo Web site says that the official word counter errs on the generous side.

Anyway, going with NaNo's conservative estimate, I've written 1420 more words than I originally calculated. That brings me effortlessly to 37716/50000, or 75.4% complete.

Let me repeat that so that you can grasp the import of this. I'm over 3/4 of the way done [with the NaNo word count -- not addressing the entire novel here]! I'm also ahead of schedule because I have 8 writing days (11/23, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26, 11/27, 11/28, 11/29, 11/30) left, or over 1/4 of the time.

I'm not going to write any more tonight because I really don't have any motivation. I had to force myself to do job-related work and NaNo-related work today. I have lost much of my concentration due to the excitement and interruption of a day off which is kind of in the middle of the week. I will therefore rest my brain until tomorrow, when I may have more energy to tackle challenging and climactic scenes.

Have a happy T-giving, if you celebrate it.

Toward tomorrow...

I wrote 246 words to go toward Thanksgiving's totals.  I have 1290 left to go for tomorrow. Why is it such a chore?

Toward tomorrow...

I wrote 246 words to go toward Thanksgiving's totals.  I have 1290 left to go for tomorrow. Why is it such a chore?