NaNoWriMo 2004, part 2

[MsFish]

I feel your pain.

[stacer]

Stacer, no. The way the "Daily" goal % works is it measures where you are in relation to where you should be so far this month. So on day one, if you write 1667 words, you get 100%. To be at 100% on day two, you have to have written 3333 TOTAL words.

Wait.

[stacer]

Nevermind.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

/me waits

Nevermind.

I never do

[JP Dogberry]

If you put that up as a day 15 number, then how come my actual day 15 number is on day 15, not the day 16 number you claim to have on day 15?

[stacer]

6976. Well, it's not nearly enough. That's a page and a half of the draft, plus 19 pages of notes. I've been madly rushing through the research, but I think I've got way too much detail, even when I stopped trying to look so hard. And I'm still not done with the first book. I'm going in too many directions. I know the direction that I want to go, but I'm afraid of missing a detail that will support it.   It's just a draft; if I miss a detail I can go back and fix it. But I can't seem to think straight when it comes to this paper. I'm going to bed now, and getting up in about 4 hrs to continue the process.

The good news is that I did increase my scanning speed in searching for those details. I got through 110 pages today compared with 70 in the last two weeks. SE told me to count each page as 100 words. If I were to do that, I might even catch up with some of the best of you! That'd be 11,000 words today, not counting the actual written amount.

[EUOL]

32,700 for me.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

JP, because i'm confused and don't know what I'm doing.

Stacer, I also told you that if you had 18 pages of details from half a book, that a panic over possibly missing a niggling detail is not rational.

I officially wrote over 6000 words yesterday, which is why I'm way behind on the forum. That is officially the most I've ever written in a single day. I think it's the most that's been written by any one person at TWG during NaNoWriMo 2004 Despite missing nearly an entire week and have several very low count writing days, I'm only 2 days behind now, and at this pace, I will finish in 8 days

[JP Dogberry]

Right. Tomorrow I'm writing 6001 words to Spite you.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Ok, day 17 numbers up. I put JP on day 15 too, because, y'know, I'm an idiot.

[stacer]

SE, I know. It's just really hard to break myself of the habit. I'm just... well, a little OCD when it comes to this paper. It's the first one of this length that I've ever written. (I've written 20 pagers, but somehow the extra 10 seems forbidding.) Now that I've had a few hours of sleep, I think I'll be able to make connections better than at 1 am last night. It just wasn't happening, and the stress level increased.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Right. Tomorrow I'm writing 6001 words to Spite you.

actually, you'd have to write 6042 to spite me. Not that I said "over 6000," not "exactly 6000."
If you pull it off, that would be cool. I don't think I'll meet it again soon, but I'm sure gonna try.

[stacer]

I now currently have eight pages of real-live paper that actually makes sense! Not just strung-together notes!

Yay!

[stacer]

I am now at 22 pages and I have to leave for class. So, I suppose my draft is now 22 pages long. I'm going to read on the train and hope to glean just a little more before I print it at school (free printing is nice).

It didn't really come together completely, but 15 pages of togetherness and 7 pages of "I don't know where to put this" is a beginning, at least.

[Lieutenant Kije]

"15 pages of togetherness" gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling.