The goal of the 15 minute challenge is to just write as much as you possibly can in fifteen minutes, preferably pertaining to a project you are working on. It’s a little competitive push to get us writing.
Do not edit!
Do not delete!
Do not stress about what you have written!
Do not procrastinate!
Just write!
At 7pm GMT/8pm CET every day (apart from Tuesdays where we may start a little later) @Snowpanther and I will be challenging each other to see who can write the most words in fifteen minutes! (And also hope to get some work done on our respective projects.) I’m hoping to do this throughout November for Nanowrimo!
You can plan what you’re going to write. (I’ve found I work better if I’ve a rough idea of the scene I want to write) just don’t actually do any writing until the start time.
Once the fifteen minutes are up we paste a word count (as well as often a character and line count) and then we go and edit and add to whatever we’ve written.
Anyone who wants to is free to join us be it for one day or every day. No need to share your writing, we’re doing this on a trust basis.
Hrm that’s weird, notepad+ is counting 706 words and 15 lines and 3433 characters. Wonder what’s causing the differences.
Tomorrow have an idea first! I’d a vague idea, but I went stream of consciousness writing for Selene and some answers to questions I thought would be asked of her, and some explaining of motivations. It was fun!
I’m sure with practice and planning we’ll watch our line counts increase!
@Scribblesome That’s good for a first attempt, just jumping in with five minutes warning! Join us tomororw!
Contractions, probably. Most programs agree and count things like “you’re” or “it’s” as two words (“you + are” or “it + is”), and “can’t” (“cannot”) as one.
I think the difference arises in harder cases the programs can’t distinguish between. Like “girl’s”: it could be two words (“girl + is”) or it could be one (in the genitive case, “the girl’s jacket”, where the “'s” doesn’t stand in for another word). One program might always count cases like these as two words, another always as one word, since the programs aren’t able to tell the difference.
So that’s one case where the discrepancies in word counting could come from, there are no doubt others.
I joined in today. 451 words - it would’ve been more, but I just couldn’t help editing. The challenge time is noon here, so this is a nice start to my writing time.
I’d a vague idea, but I went stream of consciousness writing for Selene and some answers to questions I thought would be asked of her, and some explaining of motivations. It was fun!
The challenge time is noon here, so this is a nice start to my writing time.