nano question

[rivendellrose]

So, obviously my efforts at NaNoWriMo this year have been slightly hampered by the fact that, um, I spent nearly the first week of it in Japan. However, I'm also running into a bit of a problem because this year I've decided to count whatever creative writing I do... and most of that, at the moment, is work on The Fic of Doom (AKA That Hellboy Fic I've Been Working on For a Long Time). At the moment, I have about 23,000 words on it.

So here's the thing - because of the way I write (editing as I go), I don't really know how I can keep track of what's *new* on the fic, as opposed to what I wrote before. So how should I go about counting the work on that doc into the NaNo count?

[Poll #1482640]

I was going to include "Dear god, you're still working on that thing?" as an option, but since I'm genuinely curious what people think and wanted to use radio boxes to prevent more than one option getting tagged, I decided to leave it off. I promise to do something with fun ticky-boxes later in the month. ;)

Comments

[websandwhiskers.livejournal.com]

. . . which Hellboy fic is this?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It's the one that I'd tried to get rid of by writing the beginning of it here (http://rivendellrose.livejournal.com/598446.html), with the eggs and all, and then... discovered that the whole thing wouldn't shut up until I kept going. The bit that I linked to there is being edited a lot and rewritten in parts, and then there's... quite a bit in addition to it, as well. It's been fun, although at this point I'm really looking forward to the possibility having the dratted thing genuinely finished. ;)

[websandwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Eeee, it's the egg fic! I was hoping it was the egg fic. :)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Heee, I'm glad. It'd be a pain to write all of this and then discover that no one but me wanted to read it. ;)

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

I know this is so far off topic it's not funny, but I would LOVE to see the Arizona and Japan photos. PLEEEAASE????

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Definitely! I still need to go through them and get them uploaded and all that - I keep meaning to do it, but it takes a lot of time.