by Katherine Villyard | Dec 23, 2008 | novels, writing stats
Current wordcount: 75,070. Goal wordcount: 80,000. Guesstimated draft 0 wordcount: 76,833. Percent of goal complete: 93.84%. Percent of guesstimate complete: 97.71%. Date I would reach 80,000: January 1, 2009. Date I should reach guesstimated draft 0 wordcount:...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 21, 2008 | novels, writing stats
Current wordcount: 73,043. Goal wordcount: 80,000. Projected date I would hit 80,000 words: 1/3/09. Projected draft 0 wordcount: 76,833. Projected draft 0 completion date: 12/28/08. I’m writing 1000 words a day instead of 500 because I’m on break, and...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 16, 2008 | writing stats
Current wordcount: 71015 (woohoo!) Goal wordcount: 80000 Projected draft 0 wordcount: 76669 Projected date to hit 80000 words: 1/3/09 Projected date to hit projected wordcount: 12/27/08 I admit it, I’m relieved to see the projected wordcount go up even though...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 14, 2008 | novels, writing stats
Current wordcount: 69,959. Official wordcount goal: 80,000. Date spreadsheet predicts I’ll hit 80,000: January 2. Predicted draft 0 wordcount: 75,488 (ouch). Predicted day I’ll hit predicted draft 0 wordcount: December 24. I’m not that worried about...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 12, 2008 | life, the universe, and everything, novels
Of course, setting a writing goal means a server disaster that includes me staying until 4:30am and then getting up at 7 to go to training. I missed a couple of writing days. Will I end up getting the upgrade anyway? Tune in at the end of the month and find...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 6, 2008 | novels, procrastination
It’s not that I don’t want to write. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it. It’s that I’m tired. What I don’t get is that I’m writing less now than I was during the email migration. Argh! On the other hand, my spreadsheet of...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 29, 2008 | geekiness
I am a System Administrator. In fact, I am a SAGE Level III SysAdmin. I am not an Administrative Assistant. I will not let you write down my job title as Administrative Assistant on a hospital admission form. And no, I will not take a message for my boss. If you...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 27, 2008 | life, the universe, and everything
Happy Dead Bird Day to those of you who eat dead bird, and happy Tofurkey day to the rest of us. Today is a very special day in the US; a harvest festival where we celebrate gluttony. (Some families celebrate all seven of the deadly sins, but we’re slothful...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 24, 2008 | procrastination
Email migration hell has been over for a couple of months, and yet I’m not writing every day. I did get a galley of a story and am wandering over from time to time to see if my story’s out yet, but other than that… I need to do something about that....
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 28, 2008 | life, the universe, and everything
Still working too much. Still stressed. Reduced to posting amusing quotes: “English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.” – H. Beam Piper The writing...