One Abnormal Girl

So in my usual habit of playing with progress tracking rather than actually making progress, I made a tracking spreadsheet for NaNoWriMo that helps keep track of your daily writing and lets you know if you’re on track or not.  The usual goal is 1667 words per day, but that’s only if you actually get to sit down and conquer that goal every day.  If you skip a day, or if you’re a little short one day, the spreadsheet will redistribute your remaining wordcount over the remaining days of the month, which helps you to compensate much better than having to make up those lost 1667 words the very next day.

Here it is as an xls file: NaNo Progress Chart

If you don’t have Excel, you can upload it to Google Docs and use it from there, which is where I made it to begin with.  You only need to update your overall wordcount (the white column) for each day, and the spreadsheet will do the rest.  Your “daily quota” is how much you can expect to have to write every day for the rest of the month in order to reach 50,000 words, dependent on how much you’ve written so far.  The “words to go” is how much more you’ll need to write on a given day in order to keep a quota consistent, but if you stop short of your “words to go,” the next day’s daily quota (with the red circle) is your new goal for every day of writing.

 So if you miss a day, or are short for a day, it will help you plan how to get to 50,000 words anyway, rather than reminding you how dreadfully far behind you are. :)

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Added a new plug-in and wanted to test it out. :D

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There’s this plot device that one often seen in anime, movies, and television that’s meant to make the viewer sympathetic to a character.

Here’s the situation.  The heroine, or sometimes even hero, is in love with someone who just isn’t very thoughtful, but they can’t help the way they feel.  The two agree to meet at a certain time and place just to hang out, or have lunch, and our heroine is very excited.  She shows up, early, even, and the minutes tick by.  But the other doesn’t show.  Time passes, minutes flow into hours, and still she is alone, until finally, late at night, half a day later, she finally gives up.

At this point, the viewer is supposed to feel awful for her.  I tend to hate her.

Let’s look at what might have happened, and its consequences.

Anyone who stays after a reasonable amount of time is just looking for sympathy, either from the person in question, or from their friends when they tell them what happened.  Have some self-respect.  Go home.

(I don’t know if anyone actually does this, but it seems to show up in plots everywhere.  I do however know people who wouldn’t surprise me if they did this.)

I downloaded and installed a plug-in that should cross-post whatever I write here to my GJ account. You should be able to make comments on GJ too, which I should receive. However, fanfiction will be hosted here, so when I post that, there will be a link to come here. Please still comment if you feel like it. :) You don’t have to enter your e-mail. You can also post your comment on the original GJ post.

Let’s hope this works, because if it does, it’ll be sweet.

[testing the edits]

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Yaaaay finished reading these in the last two weeks due to my job being slower than before.