Category Archive for: ‘Word Count’
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Enough for today
$ wc -w paper.xml 2024 paper.xml Time for sleep. I’ll have to finish it tomorrow.
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Paper work
$ wc -w paper.xml 1654 paper.xml Well, it’s coming along, but slower than I’d hoped. I’m expecting the final paper to be in the 4000 word range. Alas, I need to have it finished by Monday and edited no later than Tuesday. Wish me luck!
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577 Words and Counting….
…on my paper that I need a draft complete by the 12th. I figured out last night that it’ll probably be in the 5-8000 word range.
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Stick a fork in Chapter 3!
I still think I’m missing that which seemed blaringly obvious the other night, but, well, it’s 2659 words and that’s as long as it’s going to be for a while. I’d just rather not have a Doh! moment about it after I send the mss. …
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Chapter 3 Progress
Went out to Denny’s to get a writing spell done and got Chapter 3 up to 2015 words. I realized that in the prior sketch (I can’t even really call it a draft), this chapter had a logic hole so large that I could have …
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Stick a fork in Chapter 1
3447 words. 3447 df-chap-01.txt 389 df-chap-02.txt 1139 df-chap-03.txt 368 df-chap-05.txt 523 df-chap-07.txt 5866 total
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Lunch Writer
Finally got some uninterrupted time to work on Chapter 1. Yesterday was pretty fragmented. New word count is 3310, which is coming along nicely. I keep twiddling with what was written before. I sitll think it’s a bit lean, and I’m having problems figuring out …
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Monday\’s progress
Writing done: only the abstract, which I revised slightly and sent off. Got a quarterfinalist note from the Writers of the Future contest. Again. (As an aside, man did they break that web site, argh!) I managed to get a good half the items on …
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Sunday Wrapup
Even though it’s 2 a.m. on Monday, I feel pretty much everything I did was on Sunday. What I’ve accomplished: Deep Fried Chapter 1 now stands at 3132 words. I fixed some logic errors in it, which was pretty cool. The bigger win, though was …
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