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nanowrimo day 8
Nov. 8th, 2021 05:57 am*This morning I woke up and thought 'day 8, I must be about 25% of the way through!' And then my brain got hilariously jumbled up because 12,000 words x 4 is Too Small to be 50,000, but 8 days x 4 is Too Big to be a month, which is why I should not try to do math at 5:00 in the morning.
*I finally finished the prologue yesterday! (The prologue is not 12,000 words long.) I like to work on multiple sections of the story at once, especially during nanowrimo, because I'm a big fan of the 'write whatever you feel like writing' approach.
*I write in gdocs, which as a program tends to get a little squirrelly once files get over a certain word count. I like stopping around the 10,000 word point and starting a new file (so that the 50,000 words gets divided over five somewhat even files; I don't know, I like them to match). It's great because once I start the second file, I never have to open the first one again, and it keeps me from stressing about whatever that mess was.
*It also leads to me forgetting things that happened in earlier files, but that's a different problem.
*In this story I've already been extremely inconsistent about what things I capitalize and what I don't. I am largely unconcerned with this.
*You know what I am concerned with? Characters who were given titles but not names. Come on, show! Don't make me have to go check the online wiki!
*I finally finished the prologue yesterday! (The prologue is not 12,000 words long.) I like to work on multiple sections of the story at once, especially during nanowrimo, because I'm a big fan of the 'write whatever you feel like writing' approach.
*I write in gdocs, which as a program tends to get a little squirrelly once files get over a certain word count. I like stopping around the 10,000 word point and starting a new file (so that the 50,000 words gets divided over five somewhat even files; I don't know, I like them to match). It's great because once I start the second file, I never have to open the first one again, and it keeps me from stressing about whatever that mess was.
*It also leads to me forgetting things that happened in earlier files, but that's a different problem.
*In this story I've already been extremely inconsistent about what things I capitalize and what I don't. I am largely unconcerned with this.
*You know what I am concerned with? Characters who were given titles but not names. Come on, show! Don't make me have to go check the online wiki!
