Wednesday, November 10, 2010

NaNoWriMo update

One third of the way done, at 16,686 words in ten days.

I'm using Write or Die, which is a huge help. You can set a goal of how much you want to write in what time period, and it gives you a timer countdown and a word count. And if you stop typing for a few seconds, the screen starts turning red. No time for woolgathering, just write! This is incredibly useful, as when I'm just hammering out words instead of stopping to polish every one, I can get over 500 words in less than 20 minutes. Do that three or four times a day, and you're on pace.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I use Q10. It's not as sophisticated, but it does give word and paragraph counts that are configurable.

http://www.baara.com/q10/