Thursday, December 27, 2012
Sign of the Unicorn - reading
Finished "Sign of the Unicorn" (Amber Chronicles 3) by Roger Zelazny. What can I say? The story continues. The Unicorn made an appearance. Is there such a thing as too much order? This book says "yes."
Sunday, December 2, 2012
The Guns of Avalon - reading
Finished "The Guns of Avalon" by Roger Zelazny. The amazing story continues. The Black Road appears and the Courts of Chaos get much closer to Amber. Corwin considers fratricide (as usual), and also meets up with Dara, who will play a bigger role in future books. With NaNoWriMo over, it's nice to have some time to read again.
NaNoWriMo 2012 - the rest of the story
I had in mind that I would update you every five days during NaNo, but we all see how that turned out. For the record, I had:
8,346 words on day 5 (par 8,333) = ahead
14,362 words on day 10 (par 16,666) = behind
19,083 words on day 15 (par 25,000) = behind
32,238 words on day 20 (par 33,333) = behind
42,311 words on day 25 (par 41,666) = ahead
50,409 words on day 30 (par 50,000) = WINNER!
If you correlate to days of the week, you begin to see a picture of my writing habits this year. NaNo started on a Thursday, and the following Sunday I was caught up. The next full week (November 5-11) I fell further and further behind, and on Sunday I was caught up again. The following week (November 12-18) my word count was again pretty flat during the week, and by Sunday night I was caught up again. Toward the end of the month, though, I wrote pretty consistently and stayed even with par until the end. A picture to show what I mean:
Words written by day:
Weekday total: 27,351 words.
Weekend total: 23,058 words. You can see when I did most of my writing. This is not a surprise, though. It's also not a surprise that Tuesday was my low day as that is my busiest day that starts earliest and ends latest.
8,346 words on day 5 (par 8,333) = ahead
14,362 words on day 10 (par 16,666) = behind
19,083 words on day 15 (par 25,000) = behind
32,238 words on day 20 (par 33,333) = behind
42,311 words on day 25 (par 41,666) = ahead
50,409 words on day 30 (par 50,000) = WINNER!
If you correlate to days of the week, you begin to see a picture of my writing habits this year. NaNo started on a Thursday, and the following Sunday I was caught up. The next full week (November 5-11) I fell further and further behind, and on Sunday I was caught up again. The following week (November 12-18) my word count was again pretty flat during the week, and by Sunday night I was caught up again. Toward the end of the month, though, I wrote pretty consistently and stayed even with par until the end. A picture to show what I mean:
Words written by day:
| Monday | 3254 |
| Tuesday | 2747 |
| Wednesday | 8687 |
| Thursday | 7415 |
| Friday | 5248 |
| Saturday | 11429 |
| Sunday | 11629 |
Weekday total: 27,351 words.
Weekend total: 23,058 words. You can see when I did most of my writing. This is not a surprise, though. It's also not a surprise that Tuesday was my low day as that is my busiest day that starts earliest and ends latest.
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