NaNoWriMo Update 11/23
Nov. 23rd, 2008 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2I'm supposed to have 38,000 words done today. I think.
Open Office says I've written 36,000 words.
Word Perfect says I've written 35,000 words. I'm going with the Open Office interpretation for now. ^_^
It's a bit hard to know exactly how much I've written because I'm working on an existing document. Even though I chopped out the first 15 chapters and set them aside as "Girls School part 1", the document I started with was about 23,000 words long already. A lot of the scenes I've written were partially written or sketched in with a few lines and bits of dialogue. In some cases I'm really spending time reworking entire existing scenes, which is supposedly a NaNo no-no: editing as I write. But I can't help it. If I get truly desperate in the last week, I'll just start writing pell-mell, but until then I think I'm perfectly capable of editing as I write and still meeting the overall goal. After all, I started off almost a week behind before I really got going this year, and I'm nearly caught up now.
If I go by the Open Office word count. ^_^ If I get to the end, and Open Office says I've written 50,000 words and Word Perfect says no, then I'm still going to declare myself a winner. After all, I'll be validating with a document that is going to be closer to 70,000 words...
Oh, and I ended Chapter 21 on a triple cliffhanger! Woo! Go me! Ranma facing a snake demon, Akane almost getting kissed, and Nabiki being forced to go on a date!
And I got quite a bit of Chapter 22 done as well! This is shaping up nicely. I think I'll do a Chapter 23 and then launch into the big Genma plot, which ought to be at least 2 chapters, maybe 3 with a follow-up for the aftermath. And then... finally... I can insert all of the chapters from the "magical girl" storyline I wrote last year....
Open Office says I've written 36,000 words.
Word Perfect says I've written 35,000 words. I'm going with the Open Office interpretation for now. ^_^
It's a bit hard to know exactly how much I've written because I'm working on an existing document. Even though I chopped out the first 15 chapters and set them aside as "Girls School part 1", the document I started with was about 23,000 words long already. A lot of the scenes I've written were partially written or sketched in with a few lines and bits of dialogue. In some cases I'm really spending time reworking entire existing scenes, which is supposedly a NaNo no-no: editing as I write. But I can't help it. If I get truly desperate in the last week, I'll just start writing pell-mell, but until then I think I'm perfectly capable of editing as I write and still meeting the overall goal. After all, I started off almost a week behind before I really got going this year, and I'm nearly caught up now.
If I go by the Open Office word count. ^_^ If I get to the end, and Open Office says I've written 50,000 words and Word Perfect says no, then I'm still going to declare myself a winner. After all, I'll be validating with a document that is going to be closer to 70,000 words...
Oh, and I ended Chapter 21 on a triple cliffhanger! Woo! Go me! Ranma facing a snake demon, Akane almost getting kissed, and Nabiki being forced to go on a date!
And I got quite a bit of Chapter 22 done as well! This is shaping up nicely. I think I'll do a Chapter 23 and then launch into the big Genma plot, which ought to be at least 2 chapters, maybe 3 with a follow-up for the aftermath. And then... finally... I can insert all of the chapters from the "magical girl" storyline I wrote last year....
