NaNo Day 16, End

[alexmegami]

Building 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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[alexmegami]

Hell, I'm writing something that has basically no plot and only a point in the most vague of senses.

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?

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

That's true, I do write long posts. I hope I don't drive people crazy by doing that, I just have a lot going on in my head most of the time.

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.

[alexmegami]

No, I get that. I was never really able to keep a paper journal, either, except ones that I shared with other people (so, really more of a journal/notepassing device).

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...)

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

Maybe, actually, at least with The Christian Imagination. I actually got to both lectures of that class this week, even though I'd been skipping for about a month, because I felt better after I emailed the prof and she emailed me back telling me not to be embarassed to come to class even though I'd been gone for awhile. Maybe I should get some notes together on the first essay I need to do for that class and show them to her. She's super nice.