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 […]
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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 […]
“Copious but not compendious”?
I just realised that I haven’t mentioned where the title of my blog comes from. It’s from a letter from George Ball to Richard Cocks in 1617. At the time, Ball was the head (called the “president”) of the East India Company (EIC) merchants in the East Indies, and resided in Bantam (map), where the […]
NaTheWriMo Day 4
Bleh. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 4 Word count: 510 Transcription word count: 8,300 Blog entries: 5
NaTheWriMo Day 3
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: […]
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