Today's happy things

[sigelphoenix]

1. I got in my word count yesterday, despite getting distracted by other things (one of which was a Warmakers email RP thread, which I consider acceptable distraction!). I stayed up past my bedtime to do so, on the reasoning that I feel sleepy at work anyway, so I might as well have a good reason for it.

2. Going to bed late caused me to sleep in this morning, and somehow I turned my alarm off rather than hitting the snooze button. This meant that I caught a later bus, which usually runs late (at least during the quarter when students increase the passenger load). However, it was actually almost-on-time this morning, meaning I got to work right at 8:00. Woo!

3. My Adagio order is scheduled to arrive today. More tea!

4. I decided to return a pair of shoes that, while pretty, were more expensive than they were worth and also not likely to get worn often. This means more money for other shinies, yay! I also convinced myself that this did not mean I could buy more shoes as a replacement. XD;;

5. This Saturday, I will visit the sakura trees in the Quad for a morning of picture-taking, followed by a session of ratzeo's game. Which sounds like just a perfect day.

Comments

[shadawyn.insanejournal.com]

Email RP is fic, and therefore should also be applicable for wordcount :)

[sigelphoenix.insanejournal.com]

Awesome. XD

[shadawyn.insanejournal.com]

I wouldn't count it myself, because I'm too lazy to add up the words. But fic is fic is fic, and email RP fics are almost always longer than solo fics. At least for me.

[nekokoban.insanejournal.com]

Dude, if we're allowed to apply RP threads to our daily wordcounts, I'm also doing pretty good. XD

I'm looking forward to pictures on Saturday! It sounds like we'll have a nice big group this year, which'll be exciting♥

[sigelphoenix.insanejournal.com]

Sure, why not? XD

Sounds like it. I have no idea who's actually coming, or if it will rain or not - hell, I don't even know how many blooms are still on the trees at this point - but I look forward to it. :D

[nekokoban.insanejournal.com]

SWEET. Then my wordcount is -- better than I thought it was! \o/

Hahahaha, after the snow on Saturday (wtf Seattle, really), I don't know either -- but HOPEFULLY it'll be nice and green and at least sunny enough for pictures. :Db

[shadawyn.insanejournal.com]

Well, she specifically said (in an earlier post) that Warmakers fic was part of the wordcount she wanted, and the email RP is a group email fic, so... I think it counts :)

[nekokoban.insanejournal.com]

Ahhhhhh! ... well, in that case, yeah, I would say it does count. XD Mine, prooooobably not so much, oh well.

TODAY IS A NEW DAY, I can only improve. o/

[shadawyn.insanejournal.com]

I've sorta stopped tracking wordcount and "what counts and what doesn't count" as closely as I used to (which is also why I stopped posting or keeping up with metric posts), because I found all that time I spent compiling numbers, and deciding what counted and what didn't count... I could have spent writing :)

[sigelphoenix.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, I worked a little bit on the fic this morning, but since it involved cropping and editing things I'd already written, I don't know how to count it. So I'll just do a handwaving guess; it doesn't matter how many words if I feel good about the progress I make.

Of course, I could actually finish the fic today, and get my sense of accomplishment from that - though, as I have designated tonight Tax Night, we'll see if that happens.

[shadawyn.insanejournal.com]

If you must quantify (and I understand the desire to), I would try to consider "how many words would I have written, if I were writing during this session?" and mark that as your guestimate (and maybe color code it different or something). Editing is another animal, and I've never found a good way to quantify it. You can do pages/wordcount (edit 2000 words), but if you have an easy amount of pages, that's different than 20 pages that needs to be rewritten from scratch.

Just one of my many issues with revising ;)