Nano revelation

[triskellian]

(No, I'm not doing Nanowrimo; that would be insane.)

My revelation is this: if loads of people can churn out 50,000 words of possible-dross in one month, while working five days a week, I should have no trouble churning out 10,000 words of intelligent and well-written dissertation in twelve weeks, while working four days a week. Right?

Comments

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Sounds reasonable to me.

[triskellian]

You're much more reassuring than your husband!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I should have no trouble churning out 10,000 words of intelligent and well-written dissertation in twelve weeks, while working four days a week. Right?

Depends on whether you think dissertations are hard mostly because they involve a lot of typing or mostly because they involve a lot of thinking!

[triskellian]

It was actually the thinking time I was considering, really. Nanoers still think about their words, and I've got lots of extra time per word to allow for my greater level of required thinking. Just writing the requisite number of words - for either endeavour - would be easy!

So. Not counting time spent doing anything else, Nanoers have nearly a minute per word; I have twelve minutes per word. Are each of my words going to be twelve times more carefully considered than a Nanoer's? ;-) Let's skim over the issue of background reading...

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Right?

Right. Piece of piss, love.

[valderys.livejournal.com]

Right. *nods firmly*

[adamsmithjr.livejournal.com]

I did mine much quicker than that. I recommend turbo-charging the process with two key elements: G&Ds ice cream, and Bateleur.

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

Sadly in this case quality counts, and you need to do stuff like research. Both strictly optional for Nanowrimo.

Rightish. You'll probaby beat yourself up over the details a bit more.

[a-llusive.livejournal.com]

All the best.

lovely lovely icon btw.