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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Art & Literature → NaNoWriMo
What do you think about this?
One of the organizations that I have chosn to receive email maiings from is BookBaby.
This afternoon an email from bookBaby was publicising NaNoWriMo.
It appears to be international, notwithstanding that the event is called National Novel Writing Month, as the Sign Up page offered time zone and had prefilled it as London for me.
The fastest i could copy type on a wordprocessor was 30 words per minute.
William
The fastest i could copy type on a wordprocessor was 30 words per minute.
Why would you be copy typing, unless you had written everything longhand initially?
30wpm is quite slow for typing on a wordprocessor unless you’re a beginner, but even at that speed you could type 50k words in about 28 hours, so completion of the novel within 30 days is theoretically quite achievable.
The copy typing was over twenty years ago.
I was out of work at the time and so I took the opportunity to go to courses to learn about using programs such as Word and so on.
We needed to do copy typing as part of the course and I timed myself.
Several attempts on several courses over a couple of years and i just could not get up beyond thirty words per minute. Though the examination in wordprocessing was for a speed of 30 words per minute so that was fine. For the National Vocational Qualification Level 2 in Using Information Technology speed did not come into it, it was about the quality of the output.
I have never timed myself at typing when I am typing something like this or typing a chapter of a novel, direct from my mind to the computer via my fingers and a keyboard. I suppose that if I need to pause to thik out the story it would slow things down, but when I am writing chpters for my novel sometimes I have thought out the story line in my mind before I start to type it into the computer and then the typing of it is a sort of replay of the story from my mind, polishing the basic storyline as I go, imagining conversations and typing them as they go on.
Yet using thirty words per minute as a rough guide, which is 1800 words per hour if the pace can be mantained, and dividing fifty thousand words by 30 days gives, rounded up, 1667 words per day on average.
So I am thinking that an hour twice a day could well work out.
But I would need a topic that enthuses me to give me the motivation to keep at it.
With the novel that I completed I was motivated to get muy ideas expressed.
Sometimes I took quite a while finding out things.
A particular example,
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_044.pdf
I watched various YouTube videos about the train journey, aincluding cab ride starting from the train depot.
I used
for the route across Paris.
I read about the bridge.
I used Google street view to find whether the Eiffel tower was visible from the bridge.
And so on. I enjoyed doing all that.
Would all that reading and viewing of the background be possible for a novel written to a timetable?
William
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