Thursday round-up
Jun. 7th, 2007 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceSo I've been working seriously on the novel for a week; and I pretty much hate everything I've done, but this isn't about quality, this is metrics time. I had a 63-page start, part one, 19581 words; and now the total stands at
or in simple pagecount
- which means the totals for this last week are 39 pages and 11,477 words. Which ain't bad, if it ain't exactly stellar.
I could raise the percentages above by switching to the official contractual length of 120,000 words - but we all know first draft will come out longer, so hey. Honest metrics...
In other news, when I bought new chocolate biscuits yesterday I actually remembered to put them - still wrapped - in an airtight tin, against the depradations of young Mac. This morning, I find the tin on the floor, the lid prised off, the wrapping ripped to shreds and the entire pack of biscuits strewn across the carpet, some chewed, most just licked. Snarl.
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31,058 / 150,000 (20.7%) |
or in simple pagecount
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102 / 450 (22.7%) |
- which means the totals for this last week are 39 pages and 11,477 words. Which ain't bad, if it ain't exactly stellar.
I could raise the percentages above by switching to the official contractual length of 120,000 words - but we all know first draft will come out longer, so hey. Honest metrics...
In other news, when I bought new chocolate biscuits yesterday I actually remembered to put them - still wrapped - in an airtight tin, against the depradations of young Mac. This morning, I find the tin on the floor, the lid prised off, the wrapping ripped to shreds and the entire pack of biscuits strewn across the carpet, some chewed, most just licked. Snarl.