NaNo2008

[dakegra]

wordcount: 501

and I appear to have another new character already! Alberto, proprietor (dammit, *that* was the word I'd been looking for!) of the Nelson Mandela cafe in the student union.

No sign of Monty or Molly yet, which must be some kind of record. :-)

Writing this in Google Docs, so I can do some from whichever computer I happen to be at.

Where are *you* doing yours?

Comments

[anonymous-greg.livejournal.com]

I like the cafe name!

If I were doing NaNo, I wouldn't be able to use Google Docs -- [evil bastage overlords] block it. They don't like anything which smacks of "offline storage". Did I mention that they're bastages?

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

you need some new overlords, of the non-bastage variety. They appear hell-bent on making your life grim.

I have a sneaking suspicion that quite a few universities now feature a Nelson Mandela coffee bar. Back in my day it used to be called the Mouat Jones.

[sugar-shrapnel.livejournal.com]

http://www.baara.com/q10/

It's beautiful. Takes up the whole screen, word counts for me, makes typewriter noises and did I mention it takes the whole screen up so I don't get side-tracked? Oh and there is an Amelie motif to it.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

ooh, that's rather lovely. Bit like Darkroom.

Had to turn the typewriter noises off, as it interferes with my tunez.

:-)

*love* the wordcount thing.

[sugar-shrapnel.livejournal.com]

I typed along to Mozart earlier on and it was quite competitive!

I love elegant simplicity. :)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I'm doing mine on a piece of software called Liquid Story Binder... It can be run off of a pen drive, and it's always with me :)

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

hmm, I thought that was Mac only? or am I thinking of the wrong thing?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's PC only :)

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

Ooooh google docs. Tempting.

Am writing in Word presently.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

you should try Q10

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

what's Q10?

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

http://dakegra.livejournal.com/1986050.html

:-)

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

Sankyuu!

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

After failing to install open office & not being able to work out how to use Ywriter, mine is being typed on a 60 free trial of ms word, as I only have ms office installed on the pc, not the laptop. I don't usually need it.

I did it in a notebook last year & typed it onto the pc in the middle of the night, so this hopefully will get me further along as I only need to write it once.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I've used Notepad before, all you need is a text editor.

the one that sugar_shrapnel recommended is ace, as it shows you wordcount as you type, and you can set up other wordcounts too - so I had it showing how many words of the 1,667 daily target I'd done, as well as how many out of the 50,000 I had left to do. :-)

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

I did start it on notepad, but decided to tech it up a bit on Saturday afternoon *g* I can't do techie things unfortunately, though this edition of word has a wordcount at the bottom automatically I assume as I didn't put it there!