Spent the day tweaking things, which is always annoying, time-consuming, not highly productive in terms of increasing the word count, but ultimately necessary. Feeling slightly frustrated but still relatively okay. Downloaded a couple recent(ish) British edition PhD theses for comparison, which made me feel better. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 3 Word count: […]
Monthly Archives: November 2010
NaTheWriMo Day 2
Transcribing more stuff doesn’t really count, but the figure’s included in order to spur me to top it with Real Text. Anyway, slow start, but working on it. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 2 Word count: 400 Transcription word count: 2,850 Blog entries: 3
This is what digital humanities can be
Ok, so this isn’t part of my NaTheWriMo, just something I’d forgotten to post earlier: One of the coolest – if not the coolest presentation I saw in England last spring was given by an art historian and medievalist named Kathryn M. Rudy, and entitled “Dirty Books”. Not dirty as in naughty, but dirty as […]
National Thesis Writing Month
This month, I accept and attempt the challenge of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) – or rather, since it ain’t fiction I’m writing (sic), this is NaTheWriMo. Bit of a mad venture, really, but, dammit, words ain’t forthcoming unless ya writes ’em. So, in a nutshell: 50,000 words in 30 days Wish me luck… […]