Liberal Arts Major
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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"But friends, i ask you. What is a GameCobra? From where does it come? Who are it's people?" - A Random Day on World of Warcraft
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My advice is to download AbiWord ( http://www.abisource.com/ ) and then use that, because it has a word counter (among other things) and the price is right. <_<
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
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"But friends, i ask you. What is a GameCobra? From where does it come? Who are it's people?" - A Random Day on World of Warcraft
Liberal Arts Major
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
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Word count: 2103
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
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On the bright side, this was on a work day, so i can still save the energy and time for Friday and Saturday coming up.
Total Words so far: 4853
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"But friends, i ask you. What is a GameCobra? From where does it come? Who are it's people?" - A Random Day on World of Warcraft
Liberal Arts Major
I use it to convert things to PDF and... nothing else.
Also,
Word Count: 0
That has a small chance of becoming a positive integer this year. But probably not.
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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Tonight i'm going to try to put in another 800 words to make up for the lost time, but if i can't, then tomorrow i got the day off and i'll be trying for 10K words for the next two days!
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"But friends, i ask you. What is a GameCobra? From where does it come? Who are it's people?" - A Random Day on World of Warcraft
Liberal Arts Major
Don't sacrifice quality for high word counts!
wait
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Editor
Forget what I said earlier about hitting my groove again, everything I write is still ****ing awful compared to last year, and last year wasn't amazing either. sigh. hopefully by the 10,000 word mark i'll be doing okay again.
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
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My chapters are too big, and that seems to be what drived me to hitting 20K these past two days. My Chapters are suppose to be on average 5K, but i accidentally hit an extra 7-8K Each instead for the past two days just by ignoring the word count. XD
All in all, i feel solid now. Hope i don't slow down this week while i'm at work. =)
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"But friends, i ask you. What is a GameCobra? From where does it come? Who are it's people?" - A Random Day on World of Warcraft
Editor
gotta start doing more than ~1600 words a day to catch up!
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
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I just gotta see how things work out during my work days. Doubt i'll make a push like this next Friday/Saturday, but we shall see!
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"But friends, i ask you. What is a GameCobra? From where does it come? Who are it's people?" - A Random Day on World of Warcraft
Liberal Arts Major
To be fair, the format of this contest/personal challenge is not conducive to good writing. Books that are written in short periods and turn out good (e.g. Fahrenheit 451) are not usually completed in those periods because the author intended for them to be written quickly, but rather that the author had the creative energy to write what he or she intended within a reasonable period of time.
I wouldn't be too concerned if your writing isn't as good as it would be in other circumstances, since these are not other circumstances!
My Chapters are suppose to be on average 5K, but i accidentally hit an extra 7-8K Each
Why do your chapters have a restriction on word count?
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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It doesn't need to be publishable, it just needs to be a somewhat accurate transcription of my thoughts onto paper. If it fails in that regard I've got no reason to keep writing. >_>
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
Liberal Arts Major
Well if it fails that criterion it must be really bad. >_>
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
Liberal Arts Major
=(
My condolences Kenri.
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Advanced
Why do your chapters have a restriction on word count?
I wanted to have my book written with chapters to give myself a goal and theme. It seems to me after reading so many books lately that Chapters are usually averaged between 3000-5000 words. I planned on aiming for 13 cahpters, but i might actually have to change that. :|
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"But friends, i ask you. What is a GameCobra? From where does it come? Who are it's people?" - A Random Day on World of Warcraft
Liberal Arts Major
I don't know how professional writers do it but it seems to me that chapters are less an question of word count and more a question of what portions of the overall story are viable as independent chunks. Chapters exist to allow the reader natural stopping points and to separate the information of the story into a natural, discrete timeline. It's easier to remember what happened in Chapter N than it is to remember what happened on Pages N1-N2.
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Advanced
I don't know how professional writers do it but it seems to me that chapters are less an question of word count and more a question of what portions of the overall story are viable as independent chunks. Chapters exist to allow the reader natural stopping points and to separate the information of the story into a natural, discrete timeline. It's easier to remember what happened in Chapter N than it is to remember what happened on Pages N1-N2.
Oh, i use the chapters with the reader in mind per chapter to separate the chunks as well and to make the 'wham' points in the book much more impacting after a long trail of action has happened, But my real goal per chapter was simply to use them for a hidden guideline in this contest to fulfill the idea that each chapter should be at least 3000-5000 words. I find for example i did a measley 2400 words in Chapter one for my contest, but by the time i hit Chapter 4-5, i'm hitting the 6-8 K area. After the contest, however, i'm definitely proofreading it afterwards to see my mistakes, but the chapters are certainly giving off a nice string of plot!
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"But friends, i ask you. What is a GameCobra? From where does it come? Who are it's people?" - A Random Day on World of Warcraft
Liberal Arts Major
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Advanced
These past two days i only got 1K in, but at least i'm still pushing!
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"But friends, i ask you. What is a GameCobra? From where does it come? Who are it's people?" - A Random Day on World of Warcraft
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"But friends, i ask you. What is a GameCobra? From where does it come? Who are it's people?" - A Random Day on World of Warcraft
Editor
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
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I hope this weekend i get everything wrapped up.
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"But friends, i ask you. What is a GameCobra? From where does it come? Who are it's people?" - A Random Day on World of Warcraft
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LMAO he ain't my lover I'm not into guys -Tengu
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Word count: 32,649
Today's goal: 35,000
I've been using Write Or Die to motivate myself. Set it on a word goal of 2000 words and a time limit of 1 hour and go nuts. It will offer various "incentives" (by which I mean punishments) to keep you writing that whole time, plus just having a concrete deadline helps. Really the issue is going to be not falling any more behind, probably. If I can manage that, I'm good.
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic