{"id":900,"date":"2009-11-30T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/11\/30\/done-and-done\/"},"modified":"2009-11-30T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T07:59:00","slug":"done-and-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/11\/30\/done-and-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Done and done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote 10,700 words of fiction today, bringing my total for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/eng\/user\/76722\">NaNoWriMo<\/a> to just under 52,000 words, which got me this lovely parting gift:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/stories\/nano_09_winner_100x100.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I may post more about this year&#8217;s experience later, but for now, here are some totally misleading statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The official nanowrimo.org word tracker (shown below) is wildly inaccurate, because at least twice (including last night, when I did 7,300 words), I updated my total after midnight, and so it was added to the next day&#8217;s count instead.  I would really prefer to be able to manually assign my word counts to specific days, since until the verifier goes live on November 25th it&#8217;s all manual updates anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/stories\/inaccurate.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Because of <a href=\"http:\/\/sparckl.livejournal.com\/52323.html\">OryCon<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sparckl.livejournal.com\/52826.html\">31<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sparckl.livejournal.com\/49807.html\">other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sparckl.livejournal.com\/47156.html\">obligations<\/a>, I only actually spent 15 out of 30 days writing this year&#8217;s novel.  My lowest word-count day was 570 on November 17th, and my highest was 10,700 on November 30th (which may also be the most words I&#8217;ve ever written in a single day for <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">anything<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>My mean average word count per working day was about 3,400.  If I throw out the highest and lowest outlying data points, it&#8217;s 2,900.  But first draft is not my problem.  Revision is what kills me.<\/p>\n<p>As per usual, I did minimal outlining, though I did keep notes and make sketches throughout the month.  The final novel actually did contain all the elements I anticipated when I filled out this form at the kick-off party:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/stories\/IMGt.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote 10,700 words of fiction today, bringing my total for NaNoWriMo to just under 52,000 words, which got me this lovely parting gift: I may post more about this year&#8217;s experience later, but for now, here are some totally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[35,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanowrimo","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}