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cdybedahl ([personal profile] cdybedahl) wrote2003-11-21 11:50 pm

ProgressBot says...

Current wordcount is 49758.
This is 14751 words over today's target count.

EDIT: Bugger! Well, tomorrow for sure.
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[identity profile] cdybedahl.livejournal.com 2003-11-22 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
The counter script runs at 11:50pm sharp, and however many words I have written by then is what gets posted. This daily deadline has actually been a great motivator. I wrote almost a thousand words in the last half hour before it yesterday.

And there's still a fair bit of story to go, so I think I'll end up somewhere around 55k words.

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2003-11-22 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I see how it works. The rate you've cracked through this has been bloody impressive.


This daily deadline has actually been a great motivator. I wrote almost a thousand words in the last half hour before it yesterday.

Heh, I can see how it would focus the mind.
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[identity profile] cdybedahl.livejournal.com 2003-11-22 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
I'm still far, far slower than [livejournal.com profile] themerovingian who had her first 50k words done by Thursday the 6th. But I think I've done pretty well anyway. Although we'll see if I still think that once I try to read what I've written :-)

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2003-11-22 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
50k in a week... That's just astonishing. I just wrote a 50k piece, and it took me seven weeks.

I think I've done pretty well anyway. Although we'll see if I still think that once I try to read what I've written :-)

I thought the challenge was to hit the word count! I think you've done amazingly. If you're going to carry on writing, I hope we still get to see those progressbots. I'll miss them off my friends page.
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[identity profile] cdybedahl.livejournal.com 2003-11-22 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Well, yes, that is the challenge. But so far I have a feeling that the story is actually not at all bad, it'd be a nice bonus if that's really the case.

And the bot is set up to run for all of November.

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2003-11-22 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Now that the NaNo challenge is met, you have the luxury of turning it into the piece you really want it to be.