NaNoWriMo update.

[sofiaviolet]

Words: Well, uh. That's the thing.

Word tells me I have 6180 as of writing this entry. The NaNo word counter tells me I have 6267. This is good, actually, but the discrepancy is really bugging me when it comes to my super-detailed spreadsheet.

I am doing fine with regards to standard NaNo targets, but my personal goal was 2500 per day, and I haven't hit it yet this month. I mean, I have some excuses - burlesque on the 1st, random Amanda Palmer show on the 2nd. And it doesn't help that I'm behind three of my writing buddies right now (of seven who actually seem to be doing NaNo this year). Way to make me feel inadequate, guys (I still ♥ you).

Here, have a quote from the part of the story I'm not supposed to be working on yet:

He ducks his head, bites his lip – he's going to puke butterflies all over her if he opens his mouth, 'I like you' and 'I'm nervous' and 'please be okay with me' and 'please believe I'm okay.'

Perhaps I should do something with brother_marcus? I mean, I am writing his story for NaNo.

Comments

[rivenwanderer]

Some wordcounts disregard words like "a" and "the", and some don't, right?

[sofiaviolet]

I'm not sure what it is, but the error is in my favor, so I won't complain. ;)

I just have to make up my mind about whether I'm going to use the Word count in my spreadsheet (for consistency with the rest of the year) or add the difference onto my November count at the end of the month (would boost my 2009 count a little tiny bit).

[maryangel]

That's a good wordcount, bb.
<3

[sofiaviolet]

Well, yes. But >.< I wanted to be further along. Lol whiny, I know.

[turlough]

Perhaps Word only counts words over three letters? I know I can change the setting of the little widget I use for wordcounting to ignore anything under a certain number of letters.

Good luck with the writing!

[sofiaviolet]

Hm, could be.But I think the discrepancy is too small for it to be due to skipping a and an. My guess would be something to do with hyphens, dashes, and slashes - I use dashes instead of semicolons, create very-hyphenated-combination-words, and include the occasional and/or when I'm just sketching things out.

[zillahseye.livejournal.com]

So you're basically...four hundred words behind for the start of the 5th day. Quitcher worrying. :D I get you, though, I am absolutely driven stark mad by the discrepancies in various counting programs. I know it shouldn't bother me, but it DOES.

[sofiaviolet]

I'm not worried, just moderately disappointed. ;)