Short Day

[rolanni]

Had some stuff to do today, so a short word day.  Tomorrow, first thing! to Skowhegan and the yearly eye exam.  I expect I’m going to come out of that with a prescription for new glasses, but!  We shall see.

Has anyone here used a Virtual Assistant, and if so, how has that worked out for you?  Me, I’m still trying to figure out how to outsource doing the dishes.  Or the bookkeeping.  Or, hey!  The filing.

Progress on Ghost Ship:

71,300 words/100,000 OR 71.3% complete

OR, if we take Steve’s estimate as More Realistic

71,300 words/125,000 OR 57.04% complete

. . .I’m not sure I can bear only being 57% done, after having written damn’ near 26,000 words in two weeks, so I think I’m just gonna run with the 100,000 word Mental Health Plan for the time being.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I really, really appreciate them, too.

...and then there's the, "Wait! I did all this work, and the percent completed is less than when I started?"

*sticks head back in sand*

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Hmm, you could do it on a sliding scale. Like 1000 words per day, for instance. So tomorrow you'd take the percentage out of 101k, the next day out of 102k, etc., so as long as you then write at least 713 words per day then your percentage won't drop, it just won't rise as fast. (Or if you wanted to do it slower, say 50 days, you'd only have to write 356.5 words per day to stay even, but that half word might get confusing.)

I could write an app. for that (call it iMovingTarget) but Apple wouldn't like it, you'd have to run it from the command line, which in their case they have not got. It'd run fine on Linux and other Unix systems though...