I broke 10,000 words. Without the Munchkin and his dick jokes. This is huge(Not that that didn't sound entendrish.) Taking a moment. And I'm done. But there is no way that I'll have 50k by 12/1 without heavy drugs, and even then, eh. But I'm proud.
Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!
Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
erikaj - Nov 18, 2003 8:21:10 am PST #2800 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Betsy HP - Nov 18, 2003 8:23:19 am PST #2801 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Erika, I just got to 2K two days running. I think it's just taking me longer to learn how to write extended stuff. There's time for both of us to catch up.
But, candidly, winning is not necessarily the point of the exercise. I got the glimmer of a novel I want to write, and write for as long as it takes in the real world. That means I've already won.
deborah grabien - Nov 18, 2003 8:28:35 am PST #2802 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Betsy, I'd say that basically sums up the big Why, in terms of how NaNoWriMo is so damned useful.
Who came up with the original concept, BTW, of writing a novel in a month? Anyone know?
Sean K - Nov 18, 2003 9:08:14 am PST #2803 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I liked this particular section of the summary, Theo...
"Fraser, Fraser, Fraser." Fraser blinked.
::snerk::
Theodosia - Nov 18, 2003 9:11:45 am PST #2804 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sean, I think the summarizing tool just looks for the really short sentences. Which, if this were technical writing, would be chapter headings and so on. But give it 55K of first person observation, and it kinda derails. Or else the algorithm has a thing for Paul Gross, which is a distinct possibility.
Sean K - Nov 18, 2003 9:15:05 am PST #2805 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Yeah, one imagines that the autosummary would provide something more coherent when culling a white paper, or something to that effect. It also seems to be making an assumption that the most frequently appearing word in the passage is the subject of the paper.
Or else the algorithm has a thing for Paul Gross, which is a distinct possibility.
This also seems to be a possibility.
§ ita § - Nov 18, 2003 9:20:38 am PST #2806 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Or else the algorithm has a thing for Paul Gross, which is a distinct possibility.
It would be the most sensible thing Microsoft ever did.
Liese S. - Nov 18, 2003 7:23:00 pm PST #2807 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I thought my AutoSummarize was almost better than the novel.
But anyway, I'm just putzing around right now, and I've given myself the evening off. Perhaps unwisely with a preliminary grant app due tomorrow morning, but what more am I going to do tonight that's going to sway the waters? Anyway, so I'm going to go write right now.
deborah grabien - Nov 18, 2003 10:03:17 pm PST #2808 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
DAMN.
First bad review (more "eh" than bad, but still), and it would have to be Publishers Weekly, wouldn't it?
Deena - Nov 18, 2003 10:08:33 pm PST #2809 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
They suck. We should smack them around. If it were a bad review instead of so-so, we'd make definite plans.
NaNo update: 11700 words. Time to go to bed.