"This new law is both silly and dangerous," he said. "It is silly because medieval religious laws have no place in a modern secular republic, where the criminal law should protect people and not ideas."
As children grow older, they become more selective in their helpfulness. Starting around age 3, they will share more generously with a child who was previously nice to them. Another behavior that emerges at the same age is a sense of social norms.
I constantly make judgments about whether people I meet are smart, just like I constantly make judgments about whether people I see are attractive.
The copy/pasted/validated word count came in as 50,198…
…but that was a story without an ending.
So I plowed ahead and tacked on an ending that kinda/sorta worked well enough1 and used Scrivener’s word counter2 to get my new “completed” word count of 52,520.
So yeah… Go me!
Thanks to everyone that was understanding and/or patient and/or encouraging and/or interested in this project. I don’t know how I managed to get anywhere near the 50,000 mark (let alone break it), what with everything else going on this month—massive project at work, The Boy getting sick, our Thanksgiving holiday trip, and everything else that always seems to crop up.
For folks that expressed interest in the novel, let me know if you want to see this ugly first draft. I like to share. But I warn you, it’s a far cry from “any good”.
Also: Scrivener review to follow. (Short version: it’s bad ass.)
The question is, how much faster? In many cases, such as this example, your energy is better spent on optimising big things.
If you’ve been keeping track, we are (as of typing this) past week three and into week four of NaNoWriMo. According to their little widget, there are eight days left in the writing sprint. I’m currently claiming 45,058 words committed to the manuscript. To put it into perspective, that’s about:
Daily output looks a little bit like this:
The columns represent each day’s total word count. The descending line represents the average words-per-day rate necessary to reach the goal by the November 30 deadline. (Note, that goal starts at 1,700 words per day.)
I feel pretty confident that I’ll make it. And I’m looking forward to my discount on Scrivener1.
Also, curious what I’ve been writing about? Click the little “Novel Info” tab on my NaNoWriMo profile for a sort-of-synopsis and an excerpt.
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”
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