The only thing I've found which really gets and keeps me motivated is the NaNo Graph. It's been great. But now that I am exactly 11,045 words from wining on the 30th I'm realizing that there is absolutely no way I will be done with this story in that few words. I'll need another 11,000 at least, probably more, and another two weeks--during which I'll be moving to Wisconsin. I could do as others have discussed and take December off and start again in January but I don't want to lose the momentum I've been building.
Regardless I lose my good buddy The Graph. It stops measuring at 50,000 and November 30th and leaves me and my novel to face the future alone and uncertain.
I am ferverntly hoping that somebody out there knows of a way--short of my printing out sheets of graph paper and building one by hand--to create a similar graph of my own for when the offical NaNo clock runs out.
Anyone got any ideas?
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Sy5
True Art is nature to advantage dressed
What oft was thought but n'er so well expressed
-Alexander Pope
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Nov 23, 2009 - 10 59
You could probably do one pretty easily in Excel ... I seem to recall something like this from my Computer Literacy course in college.
------------ Erin Skelly Cameron
* I'm a winner! 2009: Not the Same*
Twitter: @escameron / Blog: http://almost-published.blogspot.com
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Nov 23, 2009 - 11 02
Any clue how to use Excel? I am Excel ignorant.
----------Sy5
True Art is nature to advantage dressed
What oft was thought but n'er so well expressed
-Alexander Pope
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Nov 23, 2009 - 11 07
I know how to use Excel, but not on such an advanced level off the top of my head. If you're patient and can wait until after NaNo ends, I should be able to figure it out. What version of Excel do you have? (It makes a difference in how I save the file.)
------------ Erin Skelly Cameron
* I'm a winner! 2009: Not the Same*
Twitter: @escameron / Blog: http://almost-published.blogspot.com
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Nov 23, 2009 - 11 50
That would be awesomeness for which patience is not difficult.
As to the version, I'm not sure. 2007, XP, definately not Vista or the supposedly better than Vista new thing.
----------Sy5
True Art is nature to advantage dressed
What oft was thought but n'er so well expressed
-Alexander Pope
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Nov 23, 2009 - 11 56
Hi Syberina,
The only thing I've found were some kids sites and this: in aless than 10 minute google search. Everything else that popped up was download software or for kids!
i hope that helps.
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Nov 23, 2009 - 12 10
I see the link but for some reason it won't let me access it.
----------Sy5
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What oft was thought but n'er so well expressed
-Alexander Pope
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Nov 23, 2009 - 12 22
http://www.trackngraph.com/www/GettingStarted.aspx
you can copy and paste that. I guess i didn't get the whole ahref thing right.
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