10,000 Part Three April 15, 2008
Posted by fanaticalpupil in : Hear the Grass Grow, Milestones, Writing , add a commentYes, I’ve now written more than 30,000 words… too bad it’s spread across three different projects. This time, the 10,000th word was something just as interesting as she or date. For Hear the Grass Grow, the 10,000th word is: note.
And, I’m only 207 words behind my goal average of 500 per day. So, I’ve only fallen an average of 17 words per day since the first time I reached the 10,000 word milestone on 2/15 (exactly 2 months ago - and March was a pretty weak month for my writing; the counts for February and April look a lot better).
10,000 Words Pt. 2 February 24, 2008
Posted by fanaticalpupil in : Milestones, Writing , add a commentSo, I’ve been working on this Friday Snippet project now, instead of the other one for which I’d already written 10,000+ words. But, I’ve now reached 10,000 words in what is called The Nine Mothers. This time, the 10,000th word was: she. Brilliant! Couldn’t have been “ignoring” or “blinking”, both of which came shortly before it… nope. She. Awesome.
I guess it’s very similar to my getting the Completionist achievement (Complete the majority of the game) in Mass Effect by telling Conrad Verner to go back to his wife on Earth. Yup. It wasn’t fighting the Geth, or defeating Saren (for the first time, at least), or even doing anything that involved shooting or using biotic powers. Nope. I just talked to the guy enough to convince him to return to his wife. Thank Yeewwwwww!
Milestone: 10,000 Words February 15, 2008
Posted by fanaticalpupil in : Milestones, Writing , 1 comment so farI hadn’t realized that I’d actually passed my previous best of 8,300 words for a “project” on Feb. 10th, but according to the spreadsheet, I got to 9,000 on that day.
And now, I have topped 10,000 words for a project/manuscript for the first time. My 10,000th word? Date. It probably won’t end up being the 10,000th word in the manuscript, though, since I’m writing a scene ahead of where that will probably actually be.
I won’t celebrate too much, since that only brings me about 10-11% of the way to completion, and I’m still 190 words behind on my average daily goal. But if I manage another 2,400 words (ha!), I’ll be all caught up.
Also, Wordpress 2.0’s feature that allows you to dynamically add categories is a little dangerous. Granted, it’s still not as easy to do as on Blogger, but I can see myself ending up with about as many categories (aka labels) as the dude who writes Cousins of Ron Mexico. Of course, I suppose I could add a category every time I post and after 10 years I’ll only have 70 categories. So, not too bad.