Since you've finished a Regency in a year, Susan, I'm not sure you need external motivation. NaNoWriMo is more of a "get up off your ass and WRITE, dammit!" challenge.

Which would actually be tricky unless you had the right desk. Must. rethink. metaphor.

Two years, actually. I started it back in 2001. I need to pick up the pace in the future if I'm going to make a career of this.

Victor, your column rules.(But I think kicking the little punk's ass would make me feel better, at least for the moment,)

All right. I'm in.

Dammit.

Victor, your column rules.

Thank ya!

(But I think kicking the little punk's ass would make me feel better, at least for the moment,)

Well, probably. But it would be an empty, fleeting pleasure...

Eh, you take what you can get, you know.

Yay, Liese!

Am, of course I want to be added to the filter.

I, unfortunately, haven't been able to get back into active LJing since the move, but I'd like to. I can't seem to get up the whatever it is I need to do it. Maybe this will be the incentive I need.

I signed up for NaNoWriMo as well. I've never attempted anything like this so I've already accepted I'm going to write crap. Now my goal is to write 50,000 words of it.

How many words on a page?Cause I could picture pages more easily.

How many words on a page?Cause I could picture pages more easily.

Depends entirely on your font and whether you're doublespacing or singlespacing or something weird. Let's say anywhere from 250-800.... which is why people use word count.

Take an average-looking page of your writing, formatted the way you usually do, and run it through your word processor's word count -- that'll give you a good enough idea to use for estimating.