I’ve heard rumors about a mysterious Typewriter Brigade and NaNo Rhino before, so I’m wondering where it’s hiding this year?
That’s a nice looking 1960 blue Royal Safari they’ve got as the hero image on their homepage btw…
I’ve heard rumors about a mysterious Typewriter Brigade and NaNo Rhino before, so I’m wondering where it’s hiding this year?
That’s a nice looking 1960 blue Royal Safari they’ve got as the hero image on their homepage btw…
Total today: 2,846 words
Total for the month: 2,846 words
If you’re diligently working at any or all of the above, instead of measuring all the small pieces, you could just use a 28 word/minute measure for your zettelkasten-based work.
If you’re not a full time research-only academic (without a teaching load or other administrative obligations) and for fun want to measure your NaNoWriMo for non-fiction work on a card per day basis using Niklas Luhmann as a guide/measure, then you should do the reading, research and note taking work to produce 0.75 cards per day (that is, well written permanent notes installed, indexed, and well-linked; we’re not keeping track of the indexing cards, bibliographic cards, or other fleeting notes here, which you’ll also be doing along the way) to keep pace for an equivalent 50,000 words during the month. This is about 5.25 cards per week or about 23 cards for the entire month.
The goal here is, instead of churning out raw words, to churn out reading, research, and note making towards material you can reasonably use to write journal articles, book chapters, or a full non-fiction book.
If you’re using an index card-based system for fiction writing the way Vladimir Nabokov did, then you really should do a traditional word count as that’s more closely in line with the workflow of the standard NaNoWriMo work.
N.B. This probably overshoots the mark, as the 6 cards/day number for Luhmann probably includes all cards and not just permanent notes in his entire collection over his entire lifetime’s work. It also doesn’t take into account the possibility that he carried a teaching load, administrative work, fundraising work, or other nonsense required of professors.) Of course this is is all just for fun anyway, so… quit worrying and start researching and writing a little bit every day.
It dawns on me I ought to update my totals to date on the NaNoWriMo website. (Oops!)
I’ll come back later tonight to (hopefully) add some additional material, but here’s the count:
Currently: 1,214 words.
Total: 18,528 words
I am still at 1,574 words per day on average for the month, so I am relatively close to the 1,667 average I’m supposed to be keeping up. This doesn’t seem bad to me given the amount of time I’m putting into testing out some pieces and research I’m doing along the way. I think is only the third day with a total of zero words for the day too, so I don’t feel as bad.
Today: 0 words
Total: 17,314 words
Today: 1,607 words
Total: 17,314 words
Today: 3,667 words
Total: 15,707 words
Some of the research and work will actually result in some physical changes to my site later this week to, so that’s a bonus I suppose! (I’m not counting any lines of code toward the book though.)
Today: 0 words
Total: 12,040 words
Today: 909 words
Total: 12,040 words
Today: 1,844 words
Total: 11,131 words
Today: 1,050 words
Total: 9,287 words
Today: 0 words
Total: 8,237 words
Today: 1,705 words
Total: 8,237 words