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I just wanted to say that lately I've been keeping track of how many words I've been typing per day on the story I've been writing. At the end of the day I just go back and highlight how much I've done, hit Word Count and write it on the calendar.
I think it really helps show progress, especially if you're in the middle of a longer work. It encourages me to write, so that today's square on the calendar doens't go blank. Even if it isn't the highest quality work, I can always go back and polish later.
Then you can always figure out how much you write on average per day, so you can see where you are, where you want to be, when you want to be there, and how much you'll have to write to do it. It's kind of nice.
Just thought I'd let you know it is something to try out if you want to.

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Armon

Interesting idea. I might have to try that.

On a side note, have you ever used that feature in many word processors where it keeps track of all your editing? You know, shows where paragraphs were changed and such?
OpenOffice calls them versions. I forget what Microsoft Word calls them.

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Kelhanion

I've done that backwards. When I started my last writing project I decided to write at least 1000 words per day (that would be ~1300 in English). For about two months I followed this strategy and I think it worked brilliantly for me.

Sometimes it was easy to reach the daily goal and I kept on writing beyond the 1000 words. There were also the days when writing felt like walking on broken glass. Then I would just sit longer in front of my PC and eventually I hit my goal and permitted myself to go to sleep. What suprised me was that even on those had days I didn't have to write "empty" words and meaningless paragraphs to fill the 1000 words. I just tried not to rush my text and *puff*, after half an hour staring at the blank screen the right words came out. Patience was the key in succeeding.

Pawn

Kelhanion, is your avatar a scanned picture of a Gold Dragon from the Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual?

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speculative

NaNoWriMo taught me to do that. Unforunately, I have pretty much unlearned it in the course of the following month.

-speculative

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Kelhanion

Now that you mention it, I think it is. I didn't pay attention to its origins when I searched dragon pics with Google a long time ago. I just checked from www.wizards.com and there it was. Thanks, one mystery solved!

Armon

Is that, (pauses for effect), legal?

Okay, okay, no more StarWars quotes.

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Government is not eloquence, it is not justice, it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master. - George Washington