HYPERTEXT: Word Count
A note from Auxhiler in Japan via twitter was like a glass of water to a dying plant this morning. He’s looking at NaNoWriMo with a text adventure slant.
I don’t want to do this, but with two words of encouragement I may be up and dancing. I went so far as to check into the word count problem. This just means that out of 15,000 plus participants signed up so far, in order to have the work recognized and official, you have to submit the text in full to the site’s wordcounter. Unfortunately, I think I’ve overcome the problem easily in Tinderbox by exporting the text into Page in a way that eliminates titles (though the path is a random one and can’t be easily read–wait a minute, maybe there is a path here that the program automatically sorts and is yet another interesting way of reading?!?!?!) I text-exported Blueberries and came out with a wordcount of 3,537 words. Most of the 100-Day stories were averaging about 1,000 so that’s 100,000 in three months.
Argh! So even though the wordcount problem has been overcome, the 50k words in 30 days is beginning to scare me. It’d be such a boost for hypertext by bringing it into the general populace of writers to do it. Gotta plan some more.
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