First Published: 2022 November 7
It’s officially one week into NaNoWriMo1, and I’m currently doing well. I’ve managed to write at least my word goal every day, and I’m almost a full day ahead now. Since the last time I attempted it2, the website has changed a lot. It’s much more user friendly now, and it’s far more gamified as well.
There’s even an achievement for hitting par3 every day in the month, which has been my primary motivating factor. One thing I have noticed, though, is that the daily goal appears to update based on how many words you have left to 50000. I wonder if that means it’ll set itself to 0 when I surpass the goal.4
Huh, also apparently there’s more text in this document in the footnotes than in the actual text. I guess my asides are more content than I expected them to be. I
which I and an old FAQ pronounce /raj/, despite my friends assuring me it’s /ri/↩︎
in 2011↩︎
word goal for the day↩︎
currently scheduled for the 27th, but I’m also writing faster as the days go on, which is interesting. I can’t tell how much of that is due to increases in typing speeds, increases in knowing what I want to write, decreases in forced revision and pauses for words, or decreases in average word length. I’m sure there’s some way for me to track it, but I don’t really feel like testing any of it right now. All I know is my last 10 minute writing session was over 700 words, which is about as fast as I’ve scored on some typing tests.↩︎