NaNoWriMo test
Dec. 6th, 2005 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ambericaI have decided (although not unequivocally) to participate in NaNoWriMo next year. Maybe I should say, "I think that maybe I might like to consider participating in NaNoWriMo next year." Yeah, that's probably more accurate.
I just opened a Microsoft Word document and started freewriting to see how many words per page I could/would average. In about 15 minutes, I filled one page (single-space, Times New Roman, 12 pts, full justification) with 745 words. I did not add an extra carriage return between paragraphs - just a tab indent at the beginning of each one.
This means that if I kept a good pace, and I could write about 2.5 pages a day, I'd get nearly 56,000 words written in 30 days next November. Of course, I don't expect it would go that well. There would have to be an actual story involved, and those involve more time, effort, and thought. I'm sure I would have to expect to spend more than 35 minutes a day writing. Then again... that's why I'm thinking about it NOW! So I can start an outline, character sketches, all that other time-consuming stuff that I am allowed to do ahead of time. Then all I'd have to do in November would be to actually pull it all together and write like mad! And even if I can't accomplish exactly what these figures show, I still might win since all you need is 50,000 words!
Yeah, I gotta do this. Cool. And if not, there's always NaNoWriMo 2007.
I just opened a Microsoft Word document and started freewriting to see how many words per page I could/would average. In about 15 minutes, I filled one page (single-space, Times New Roman, 12 pts, full justification) with 745 words. I did not add an extra carriage return between paragraphs - just a tab indent at the beginning of each one.
This means that if I kept a good pace, and I could write about 2.5 pages a day, I'd get nearly 56,000 words written in 30 days next November. Of course, I don't expect it would go that well. There would have to be an actual story involved, and those involve more time, effort, and thought. I'm sure I would have to expect to spend more than 35 minutes a day writing. Then again... that's why I'm thinking about it NOW! So I can start an outline, character sketches, all that other time-consuming stuff that I am allowed to do ahead of time. Then all I'd have to do in November would be to actually pull it all together and write like mad! And even if I can't accomplish exactly what these figures show, I still might win since all you need is 50,000 words!
Yeah, I gotta do this. Cool. And if not, there's always NaNoWriMo 2007.
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