Fuck All This (NaNoWriMo 2019, Day 7)
The good news is, I did really well on my word count for the first week. The bad news? Everything went to hell after the first three days.
First, I developed a dental abscess. If you've never had one of these, I'll just say that a.) you're lucky as hell, and b.) they hurt like a motherfucker. I'm talking white hot throbbing, unable to function debilitating pain.
I'm still impressed that I managed to write through that. Granted, most of it is stream of consciousness crap I'll never be able to use, but I did it. I spent a couple days curled up in the fetal position, managing to type out a few words on my phone here and there… I was in so much pain I couldn't sleep or eat, but damn it, I wrote.
Long story short, I got some antibiotics, and I'm back to normal. Well, almost. The swelling in my face has receded, the pain is low grade/manageable, and I should be back at 100% in the next couple days.
So yeah, when I say I take NaNoWriMo seriously, I'm not kidding. I will soldier through damn near anything to hit my word count goals.
Speaking of word counts… the folks at NaNoWriMo decided to overhaul their website this year. This is one of those "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" sort of things - the site was perfect the way it was with all the functionality I needed.
Now?
At least half of the features I relied on are gone. Some of these are fairly minor, but others are creating major difficulties for me. The worst is the "update word count by day" feature, which (at least for the moment) is missing.
With the old site, you could go back and edit your word count for previous days if needed. This was useful for people who couldn't update by midnight for one reason or another. Now? If you don't update before midnight, it counts it for the following day. D:
This might not sound like a big deal, but being able to keep an accurate record of your progress is the entire point of the NaNoWriMo website. Not being able to do that… it's frustrating, to say the least.
I discovered that earlier when I updated my word count at 11:59 PM. Well, I thought it was 11:59, but the NaNoWriMo website disagreed. Now it shows that I wrote nothing for yesterday, which… *sigh*
Supposedly, this is going to be fixed soon. In the meantime, I made my own chart in Evernote, so I'm just going to keep track over there.
Almost 30,000 words from my first week. Not bad, eh? :)
First, I developed a dental abscess. If you've never had one of these, I'll just say that a.) you're lucky as hell, and b.) they hurt like a motherfucker. I'm talking white hot throbbing, unable to function debilitating pain.
I'm still impressed that I managed to write through that. Granted, most of it is stream of consciousness crap I'll never be able to use, but I did it. I spent a couple days curled up in the fetal position, managing to type out a few words on my phone here and there… I was in so much pain I couldn't sleep or eat, but damn it, I wrote.
Long story short, I got some antibiotics, and I'm back to normal. Well, almost. The swelling in my face has receded, the pain is low grade/manageable, and I should be back at 100% in the next couple days.
So yeah, when I say I take NaNoWriMo seriously, I'm not kidding. I will soldier through damn near anything to hit my word count goals.
Speaking of word counts… the folks at NaNoWriMo decided to overhaul their website this year. This is one of those "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" sort of things - the site was perfect the way it was with all the functionality I needed.
Now?
At least half of the features I relied on are gone. Some of these are fairly minor, but others are creating major difficulties for me. The worst is the "update word count by day" feature, which (at least for the moment) is missing.
With the old site, you could go back and edit your word count for previous days if needed. This was useful for people who couldn't update by midnight for one reason or another. Now? If you don't update before midnight, it counts it for the following day. D:
This might not sound like a big deal, but being able to keep an accurate record of your progress is the entire point of the NaNoWriMo website. Not being able to do that… it's frustrating, to say the least.
I discovered that earlier when I updated my word count at 11:59 PM. Well, I thought it was 11:59, but the NaNoWriMo website disagreed. Now it shows that I wrote nothing for yesterday, which… *sigh*
Supposedly, this is going to be fixed soon. In the meantime, I made my own chart in Evernote, so I'm just going to keep track over there.
Almost 30,000 words from my first week. Not bad, eh? :)