motivation, possibly

[krait]

Hmm. Maybe I should start posting word counts each week. (I'd say each day, but that would be 1-depressing, and 2-unfeasible.) Nothing else seems to be keeping my nose to the grindstone lately; it's just possible that watching number inch upward might be motivational.

Anyone object violently to my spamming the world with word counts for my various Homestuck fics in progress?

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[novembermond]

sure. maybe with snippets so we can cheerlead you?

[krait]

Heh, that is... possible! Though probably not for the kinkmeme things.

Sad but true: I don't really know how on earth I'd actually come up with a word count, since I just kind of flail at a Word Document in a dozen places when writing, but I guess I could just count before and after and then do the math? But that wouldn't let me have a word count for each work in progress... Hmmm. *ponders*

[novembermond]

you write in word? then it lists the full word count of your doc automatically. if you have older word you can jot it down and then compare, but if you have word07 onwards all you need to do is highlight the new parts; it shows the wordcount like this: 78/200 <- 78 being the highlighted words. if you want a wordcount for all works you'd have to copy them into one doc.

[krait]

I used to write in Word; now I have OpenOffice. It probably does the same thing? *makes note to check*

The main problem is that I don't write linearly, so I can't just "highlight the new parts" - the 'new parts' are likely to be two sentences at the top of the document, one in the ninth paragraph, eighteen word changes/deletions/added phrases scattered all over, and then a paragraph and a half at the end. (I edit as I go, plus I keep multiple story starts in the same document.)

[novembermond]

I see the problem now. yep I guess the only thing would be to check word count before and compare after.

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