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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2011 20:15:23 GMT -5
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Post by Drall on Nov 2, 2011 21:06:15 GMT -5
Yeah, if anything I think I'll have to make my goal something a little more realistic. I'm going to be having so little time most days to write anything. An hour is not enough for 1,667 words.
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Nov 2, 2011 21:50:36 GMT -5
Yeah, if anything I think I'll have to make my goal something a little more realistic. I'm going to be having so little time most days to write anything. An hour is not enough for 1,667 words. John Creasey wrote six hundred novels in his lifetime, and died when he was 65. That means he had about 15,695 days to write that many novels, after you subtract the amount of time he spent not getting anything published, and not accounting for leap years. So, if you divide 15,695, the number of days he was alive and publishing novels, by the number of novels he wrote, 600, you get about 26. That means he finished each novel in less than a month, making him a NaNoWriMo winner for about forty-three years straight. Case in point, if he did all that, I'm sure you can find time in your day to write about 1,667 words. How long were his novels? Unless they were each ~50,000 words or more, your point is not as solid as you'd think. |
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Post by James on Nov 2, 2011 21:50:43 GMT -5
Yeah, but he left the Liberal Party so fuck him.
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Post by Caseyfreeland on Nov 2, 2011 22:15:10 GMT -5
How long were his novels? Unless they were each ~50,000 words or more, your point is not as solid as you'd think. Introducing the Baron was about 270 pages. I'm not precise on how many words that is, but it's not far from 50,000, I don't think. It might be a little more, even. Probably closer to 80,000. |
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Post by James on Nov 3, 2011 2:44:38 GMT -5
556 words. And we're on the road!
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Nov 3, 2011 3:28:33 GMT -5
Damn ... John Creasey making me feel like a newb! Heh. I found the "Over-acheivers" thread last night as well. Some of them have done 500k words in a month. Personally - fuck that! 50k is sometimes a struggle and this time I have a job.
Maybe another year I'll be stupid and try the 100k. I could do it this year as I have Da'anvi Dragons but again - fuck that! Heh :]
Going to get my word-count done for today. Nearly there already but keeping the buffer is nice. Tough day as well because we have clients visiting the office and I have Pharmatopia (RPG) later!
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Post by J.O.N ((Dragonwing)) on Nov 3, 2011 5:22:29 GMT -5
Didn't get much done today, ended up getting called out to Wagga Wagga to bring someone a spare tie...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2011 9:03:09 GMT -5
Well, I'll see what I can do on the weekend.... I did manage to scrape out 1300ish last night.... y'all made me feel bad.  |
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Nov 3, 2011 9:16:21 GMT -5
Well, I'll see what I can do on the weekend.... I did manage to scrape out 1300ish last night.... y'all made me feel bad. Huzzah! |
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Post by Caseyfreeland on Nov 3, 2011 11:02:03 GMT -5
Just barely enough to be on track after day two. Lost all my cushion. Ugh. But still on track.
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Post by James on Nov 3, 2011 18:47:41 GMT -5
... forgetting what colour your character's eyes are and trying to remember exactly where you mentioned them before.
Fuuuuuuck.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2011 18:54:30 GMT -5
... forgetting what colour your character's eyes are and trying to remember exactly where you mentioned them before. Fuuuuuuck. Oh, man, I totally hate when I do this, especially when I'm fifty thousand words later in the story. Scrolling back through all that is annoying, even when you know vaguely where you mentioned it before. |
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Post by Matteo ((Taed)) on Nov 3, 2011 18:55:13 GMT -5
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"eyes"
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Post by James on Nov 3, 2011 19:03:56 GMT -5
Yeah, that's what I did. But it's still not quite my natural reaction. Anyway, 1000 words in an hour. Not a bad start for the first proper writing session of NaNo. I also got to the gym and the pool today for the first time in weeks. Feels good. |
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