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October 17, 2007
numbers are scary
November is a month for writing. It's the National Novel Writing Month, as well as National Blog Posting Month. Apparently last year November was also the International Dissertation Writing Month, and a whole bunch of people on my blog roll (but mostly this is Krista's fault) are stepping up to the plate.
There is something about being accountable to a huge public.
I am IN. My goal for the month of November is to break 40,000 words. (The overall goal of 60K words is for the end of December.) I've got several pressing weekly deadlines that will help that goal, but seeing it here will encourage me even more!
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15,137 / 60,000 (25.2%) |
Posted by mryonker at October 17, 2007 08:29 PM
Comments
Yay, you're in! We can all be miserable together!
Posted by: Krista at October 17, 2007 10:07 PM
I'm going to try to minimize the "misery" part, :) and emphasize the "company" part.
Posted by: madeline at October 18, 2007 08:21 AM
You can do it!!! And I LOVE that we can observe your progress and note the percentage needed to meet your goal. This will allow your reading public to become demanding task masters! (Guess you should have had the evil Time Warner dude come AFTER you'd written another 74.8%! But maybe the cable will lull the lil' ones into a television-induced stupor, and they will leave you alone to write.)
Posted by: deb at October 18, 2007 02:19 PM
You are all such goal-oriented people. Be in the moment. (Okay, in other words, I'm feeling unmotivated, writing-wise. Be the rationalization!)
Posted by: susansinclair at October 18, 2007 03:14 PM