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Nov. 2nd, 2007 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienI have no idea how many words I wrote today. Somewhere between 500 and 700, I think, but between the bits that had to be trimmed in grafting last night's output back into the parent file, and the platform shifts and the embedding new sentences in old paragraphs ... I don't know. At least I think I know how to get Tam and baby Jorik lost in hyperspace and why, now. I also need to remember that Claris is claustrophobic and rework the jail-cell and trapdoor scenes with that in mind.
(Just for my own reference, the Sept 8 version of the 6-10 file is 8412 words, and now it stands at 9348.)
It occurs to me that the last time I wrote a whole novel I was working on a 386 with about 3Mb of RAM, and I didn't have much choice but to do a file per chapter. (This was much more convenient than the way I wrote my PhD thesis, which had two or three files per chapter.) Then I wrote a (small) bunch of things in the 10-40K word range, as single files without chapter breaks. Writing in chapters but keeping all the chapters in one file just feels wrong, and for the convenience of the Palm -- which is probably more powerful in most ways than the Pentium laptop that succeeded the 386 -- I started a new file after the first five chapters. Unfortunately, that just makes the wordcounting fiddlier, and I may end up sticking it back together. The Palm can hold a whole novel at once easily enough, but navigating it gets a bit tiresome.
(Just for my own reference, the Sept 8 version of the 6-10 file is 8412 words, and now it stands at 9348.)
It occurs to me that the last time I wrote a whole novel I was working on a 386 with about 3Mb of RAM, and I didn't have much choice but to do a file per chapter. (This was much more convenient than the way I wrote my PhD thesis, which had two or three files per chapter.) Then I wrote a (small) bunch of things in the 10-40K word range, as single files without chapter breaks. Writing in chapters but keeping all the chapters in one file just feels wrong, and for the convenience of the Palm -- which is probably more powerful in most ways than the Pentium laptop that succeeded the 386 -- I started a new file after the first five chapters. Unfortunately, that just makes the wordcounting fiddlier, and I may end up sticking it back together. The Palm can hold a whole novel at once easily enough, but navigating it gets a bit tiresome.