NaNo Day 16, End
Nov. 17th, 2006 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexmegamiBuilding that cushion a little bit at a time...
For the record, I "should" be at 26,667. So I'm just under 3% over the needed, or one day worth of work.
I'm figuring I'll probably miss tomorrow (as I won't get morning time to work on it, and Pat will be over and mom on the computer), so Saturday at Pat's may be a 4000-word bonanza to cover for Friday and Monday. We'll see.
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Date: 2006-11-17 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-11-17 06:14 am (UTC)I'm still amazed that I wrote 3400 words in 36 hours for my IB extended essay. It's hard to imagine doing that for a school project now. I think I wrote that many words in about 5-7 hours when I wrote my "Testimony of a Cynical Christian" LJ post, though. For some reason Internet and school writing feel totally different for me. I don't think fiction would feel "comfortable" like Internet writing, though.
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Date: 2006-11-17 06:16 am (UTC)I do it by checking pretty much every 100 words. I check my word count a LOT. But it pushes me to keep at it.
You write reeeally long posts. :)
And LJ is way different than school. Less need to look up facts/figures/whatever, and more or less (at least, in your case) based in emotion and feeling rather than hard facts.
Do you find opinion pieces for school easier, or do you not get any of those?
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Date: 2006-11-17 06:32 am (UTC)I find opinion pieces, or at least things where I don't have to do a lot of research, a little easier. The fact that something's for school always really scares me, though. The funny thing is, writing purely for myself scares me as well, I guess because I'm a harsh judge. I was never really able to keep a paper journal. But on the Internet, it's putting stuff out into cyberspace basically to express myself to my friends, which somehow makes things a whole lot easier. I'm weird like that. I wish I could write for everything as easily as I can write online.
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Date: 2006-11-17 06:36 am (UTC)I don't suppose befriending your profs would help? ;) I always found I did better when I liked the prof as a person. (Draper FTW! I keep meaning to e-mail him...)
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Date: 2006-11-17 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
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