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NaNo startup tasks
Nov. 1st, 2007 08:32 pmI'm going to be counting progress from this point forward on Miledrop as my NaNo project. Usually I track wordcount via proper manuscript wordcount procedures, which is one word = 6 characters. For the purposes of NaNo, which counts whole words the Micro$oft Way, I re-tallied my wordcount using Word's in-built feature. This inevitably leads to a reduction in number of words, since I don't tend to write a lot of prose full of teeny words.
So, conversion of Miledrop from Real Wordcount to Word Wordcount:
38,848 --> 34,297
Having done that, all that remains is for me to work on actually putting more words down. I can recalibrate back to Real Words when November is over. Of course, I totally overdid it yesterday and today and I may not last long enough tonight to have done much more than I already have. For various life-based reasons, I don't have high expectations of hitting 50k this year, but I'm hoping to still make a good dent in what's remaining of this first draft before the month is out.
(For anyone else doing NaNo, I'm on as cicada. And for anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about, go here)
So, conversion of Miledrop from Real Wordcount to Word Wordcount:
38,848 --> 34,297
Having done that, all that remains is for me to work on actually putting more words down. I can recalibrate back to Real Words when November is over. Of course, I totally overdid it yesterday and today and I may not last long enough tonight to have done much more than I already have. For various life-based reasons, I don't have high expectations of hitting 50k this year, but I'm hoping to still make a good dent in what's remaining of this first draft before the month is out.
(For anyone else doing NaNo, I'm on as cicada. And for anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about, go here)
