I meant to post this before Christmas – got derailed for a couple of weeks after my last post (did finish revising the article!), but then got in a week’s worth of NaTheWriMoing before Christmas, so let’s pretend I wrote this wrap-up message then. Right. How did it go; how did I do? Let’s look […]
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NaTheWriMo Day 24: Wrong month
This is really the wrong month for me to be doing a NaTheWriMo. What I’m doing atm is fiddling around with the specs of my edition – this includes lots of thinking about little things, namely how to represent manuscript feature X in my finished digital edition, and thus it involves less of the Writing […]
NaTheWriMo Day 18
Need more words. I think I’m aiming at 10k + 40k. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 18 Word count: 4,085 Transcription word count: 24,400 Blog entries: 13
NaTheWriMo Day 16
Not all bad: my word tally remains painfully low, but then I was tweaking code all evening, and that went quite well, I think. TEI XML is a bugger to be sure, but on the other hand when you have a set of restrictions it is comfortably easy going – unlike writing, where the blank […]
NaTheWriMo Day 15: Pep talk needed
This is Neil’s pep talk to NaNoWriMoists. He’s right, of course. A journey of 50,000 words may start with a small step, but the point is that every step along the way is a small one: one little word at a time. Which is a relief of sorts. My word count, while quite a lot […]
NaTheWriMo Day 11
Better. Not much, but better. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 11 Word count: 2,665 Transcription word count: 17,600 Blog entries: 10
NaTheWriMo Day 10: Autocorrection (was/were)
It’s still grammatical in some English dialects to say things like “we was going to church” – that is to say, the verb be can occur equally in plural form with a singular referent pronoun, or vice versa – contrary to standard English usage and what we are taught in school. Having read thousands of […]
NaTheWriMo Day 7
Note to self: no days off. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 7 Word count: 2,350 Transcription word count: 10,250 Blog entries: 8
NaTheWriMo Day 5: Building gazebos
Of course, the no. 1 procrastinatory exercise is to do what I’m doing atm with this blog: telling myself (and you lot in the process) how I’m doing and what I’m doing and how it’s all worthwhile and relevant – instead of Just Working On My Thesis. One of the things I keep telling myself […]
NaTheWriMo Day 4
Bleh. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 4 Word count: 510 Transcription word count: 8,300 Blog entries: 5