Phew… I did it.
I am trashed. I wrote 43,000 words
in the last eight days. The last day on that graph is an anomaly. The site
knows I am in Australia but insisted that I had time left. Not sure where
it thinks I am.
According to my own word count at
11:30pm on the 30th, I was under by about 4k.
Heavy sigh - only 4k?
But on the 1st it said I still
had ten hours to go (honestly nano where do
you think I am?) So - just to check - I collated and exported my scrivener file
to Word; cut out the chapters that I had written before the camp started and
voila! 81,427 in 30 days. Average of 2,700 per day.
I am a winner.
Yay. *throws confetti - waves
pompoms*
It was hard to check my word count
as I was working on a section of a much, much larger project. And I am honest. I
could have pasted it all in and said
I finished 110k words. But that would be cheating.
Plus scrivener counts any words I type
in each day, so fact files and research info counted as part of my daily word
count goal, but not part of my project word count, so my spreadsheets didn’t
match. I can probably fix that somewhere but Scrivener is a very deep pool and I
am still treading water on the surface of what it can do. Hey, I did well to
NOT get all that stuff included in the final draft.
And I kept writing things in
sections that were not part of the Camp project. I also tend to edit; I can’t
help myself. There is a kind of nanowrimo dread you feel when a word count goes
backwards. So it is only in the last few desperate days that I stopped deleting
things I am not sure about and just used strikethrough on them. They still count
in the word total even if they really do get deleted later. But in 80k words,
it’s not a big difference.
But my cabin was a bit of a loss. We
were put in a ‘cabin’; a little group of twelve so that we could cheer each
other on. Four of us did that. The figures on the right are the cabin stats. Four
members set their word counts and never wrote a single word or left a single
message for others. ZERO. And one had a 100k target. Another wrote 1,700. So pretty
much half the cabin were no-showers. There is an option to NOT be in a cabin,
so I don’t understand why they did this. I get that disasters happen but surely
you can see a problem early? So, as a cabin we hit a third of our target and failed
miserably.
You know me, I tried to help
people. But I know me, too. I was right about tricking my brain into hitting an
external deadline however arbitrary. You’re weird, brain.
Now I have to clean it up, edit a
little and send it all off and see if it is ‘yes’ to more.
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