Is the week over yet? (NaNoWriMo content)
Nov. 23rd, 2005 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeYesterday was a nightmare in terms of work. Everything went wrong. Luckily, it doesn't appear to have spilled over into today. The reason for yesterday's craziness is mostly due to the fact that all the managers have a two-day retreat in North Hatley on Thursday and Friday, and so they're all scrambling to get their stuff done before they leave.
The TMI Manager doesn't know how close she came to serious bodily harm yesterday, after she bitched that I hadn't stapled her paperwork correctly. For one thing, the triviality of the complaint alone was enough to make me snap, and for another, I had stapled her papers exactly the way they had been given to me. She realized her mistake about twenty minutes later, so I was vindicated, and I managed to sit on my hands long enough not to strangle her.
I finally clambered back on the NaNoWriMo bandwagon, after not writing for five days straight. The laptop that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ai731 so generously lent to me while Cleo is at the computer-doctor's sadly doesn't allow me to keep track of wordcount, and so I'm stressing a bit, as I have no way of knowing whether I'm on track or not. It doesn't even show the page numbers, so I can't really approximate how many words I've written, either.
I'm hoping to get my work onto a disk and slip it into my computer here at work or something, to see if I can get a wordcount here. If not, I shall ask some kind soul to take my disk and email me my own work so that I can then copy it into the word processor on my mother's computer.
My parents are still in France, still doing fine. My mother has given up on trying to use the computer, and is, according to my father, writing me a postcard as we speak. I received her letter last week, which was long and rambling and much fun. It also reminded me what beautiful handwriting my mother has. Very few people have nice handwriting these days, but my mother still writes in something very close to the script she must have been taught in boarding school.
I shall be doing some more writing at lunch. I have lots of catching up to do, especially since I'm not sure how much writing I'll be able to do this weekend. Ten thousand words in eight days is doable, right?
I have to write a post about the Barenaked Ladies' concert on Monday. Perhaps later.
The TMI Manager doesn't know how close she came to serious bodily harm yesterday, after she bitched that I hadn't stapled her paperwork correctly. For one thing, the triviality of the complaint alone was enough to make me snap, and for another, I had stapled her papers exactly the way they had been given to me. She realized her mistake about twenty minutes later, so I was vindicated, and I managed to sit on my hands long enough not to strangle her.
I finally clambered back on the NaNoWriMo bandwagon, after not writing for five days straight. The laptop that
ai731 so generously lent to me while Cleo is at the computer-doctor's sadly doesn't allow me to keep track of wordcount, and so I'm stressing a bit, as I have no way of knowing whether I'm on track or not. It doesn't even show the page numbers, so I can't really approximate how many words I've written, either.I'm hoping to get my work onto a disk and slip it into my computer here at work or something, to see if I can get a wordcount here. If not, I shall ask some kind soul to take my disk and email me my own work so that I can then copy it into the word processor on my mother's computer.
My parents are still in France, still doing fine. My mother has given up on trying to use the computer, and is, according to my father, writing me a postcard as we speak. I received her letter last week, which was long and rambling and much fun. It also reminded me what beautiful handwriting my mother has. Very few people have nice handwriting these days, but my mother still writes in something very close to the script she must have been taught in boarding school.
I shall be doing some more writing at lunch. I have lots of catching up to do, especially since I'm not sure how much writing I'll be able to do this weekend. Ten thousand words in eight days is doable, right?
I have to write a post about the Barenaked Ladies' concert on Monday. Perhaps later.
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Date: 2005-11-23 05:20 pm (UTC)Arrgh. Sorry about that, I forget that Notepad etc. doesn`t do wordcount, because I always do my wordcounting in Unix/Linux. We can try to put a lightweight te4xt editor that does have a wordcounter on the comptuer on Thursday evening, if you like.
Ten thousand words in eight days is doable, right?
Completely. Last year I finished by writing 8000 words on November 28th.
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Date: 2005-11-23 05:30 pm (UTC)... and I've been awake for 10 minutes after sleeping for 14 hours; you'll have to forgive the rambling...
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Date: 2005-11-23 05:51 pm (UTC)1250 words a day.
887 less than your pace for the first 17 days.
Doable, yeah.
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Date: 2005-11-23 07:29 pm (UTC)Got more writing done at lunch, though, and the laptop is currently recharging so I can use it again this evening before the meetup.
Good premises to you.
Date: 2005-11-24 04:52 am (UTC)Ah, notepad. Well, there are utilities that can go through a standard text file and count the words.
I'm sure