Today, after much deliberation, and the approval of everyone that was in the WriYeBuddies chat, I decided that I should count the words that I've deleted from my novel in my word count, which added another almost 30k to my total. I'm now approaching the 100k word mark and my novel is still only about two-thirds finished. Here, I'll prove it to ( Read more... )

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Yesterday, it was freezing in my bedroom because of the wind from a cold front coming in through the open window that I sit in front of while I write. So I decided that I'd go write from bed for a little while. I was talking to sylvrilyn at the time and we decided to do a 30 minute word war to give us both the little kick in the pants we so desperately ( Read more... )

Oh, heaven forbid. I broke the cardinal rule of NaNoWriMo: I edited during the month of November. Oh Holy Jesus, I think that means I must be going to WriMo hell ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I got too tired to keep posting and poking at numbers... Especially after I realized the formula I'd used to calculate how many words you needed to write per hour was wrong. That made me sad. But that's okay... Now I know and I can tweak it a bit and perfect it for the next WriDay ( Read more... )

Goal: 50,000 Words

Total So Far: 14,445
Words This Hour: 3,096
Average Words per Hour: 1,111

Words Left to Write: 35,555
Hours Left: 12
Words Needed per Hour: 1,624

Note: WOOOOO 3k HOUR!!! :D

Goal: 50,000 Words

Total So Far: 11,349
Words This Hour: 2,307
Average Words per Hour: 946

Words Left to Write: 38,651
Hours Left: 13
Words Needed per Hour: 1,950

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Goal: 50,000 Words

Total So Far: 9,042
Words This Hour: 431 [shut up, it was time to eat]
Average Words per Hour: 822

Words Left to Write: 40,958
Hours Left: 14
Words Needed per Hour: 2,128

Note: going back through and adding in the details to at least the prologue now. The neighborhood needed a little bit of definition. Not everyone has my ( Read more... )

Goal: 50,000 Words

Total So Far: 8,611
Words This Hour: 1,221
Average Words per Hour: 861

Words Left to Write: 41,389
Hours Left: 15
Words Needed per Hour: 2,049

Note: Getting better! Too bad I'm going to have to break to eat soon... and everyone is going to start waking up and IMing me again. :/

Goal: 50,000 Words

Total So Far: 7,390
Words This Hour: 1,329
Average Words per Hour: 821

Words Left to Write: 42,610
Hours Left: 16
Words Needed per Hour: 2,072

Note: w00t! That was a 30 minute Write or Die session only. Yay!