Have I gone mad? Well, at least the kids think so. For I have signed up for NaNoWriMo - which is an event that requires participants to write 50,000 words (a novel) in the month of November. I think it would be far less painful to grow a moustache and just sign up for Movenber. But really, it will challenge the procrastinator in me and will still my busy mind that, at the moment, has two novels vying for attention while I walk the dog at 5.30am every morning. So if I break it down, I only have 1,666.66667 words to write every day. Or if I take weekends off, I will have to write 2,272.7272727 a day - that's probably a bad idea because I know I will forget how to write when it comes Monday morning. So here I go ... I wonder if the title counts, and oh, they have to be DIFFERENT words? Hmmm. ... My story began when Melbourne was not even Melbourne at all - it was Port Philip Bay, New South Wales. (19 words already!)
Wonderful, Kerri. Good on you. At this stage I'm just as impressed by your mathematics ability as I am by your commitment.
ReplyDeleteWell, I am a writer not a mathematician, so could never calculate the above figures without a calculator! The beauty of NaNoWriMo is that when you log your number of words written each day, the website comes up with your own personal little stat box which shows a graph of your progress, your average number of words written each day and when you will finish given your current rate of progress. Positively addictive! And I couldn't do that with no calculator!
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