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nanowrimo_ljHey all, I have a few digitized things that have helped/amused me over the NaNoing years, and I thought I would share them.
Firstly,(and most awesomely, I think) the NaNoWriMo Report Card. This was created by Erik Benson and I first downloaded it in 2004. It's a Microsoft Excel file, and each day in November you just input your current word count, and it does all these awesome calculations giving you your average words per day, how much you should write tomorrow to catch up and whatnot. I love this thing~
It worked great in 2004, but when the next NaNo rolled around, I realized that it was not well suited for 2005. So for the past couple years I've been editing the spreadsheet a bit so that I can use it for the current year. And this year, I've uploaded the 2007 compatable version so that other people can use and abuse it.
You can download it here~
If megaupload breaks or anything like that, you can download it here. It's better if you tried megaupload first, because I'm hosting this on my school server space, and the school is notorious for taking the server down at the most random and inappropriate times.
Next, this thing. It's built for helping you to develop your role-playing character, but I've been using it for three years to help develop my characters for NaNoWriMo. I've found it to be quite helpful. The list of questions is quite long and intensive, but even if you don't go through and answer everything, it brings up a few points that you may want to think about that I haven't seen on other character sheets.
The Zokutou word meter. It's a nice little thing where you just fill in your word count and it generates the HTML to make a progress bar that you can post on your LJ or elsewhere.
And lastly, tektek.org and candybar doll maker. Maybe it's just me, but I love making little dolls of my characters. It helps me to visualize them and to think about what kind of clothing they would wear. Also, playing around with these things has helped me to create more secondary characters than I can recall. Plus, it's fun and a good procrastination device.
Crossposted to nanowrimo and 2007nanowrimo
It worked great in 2004, but when the next NaNo rolled around, I realized that it was not well suited for 2005. So for the past couple years I've been editing the spreadsheet a bit so that I can use it for the current year. And this year, I've uploaded the 2007 compatable version so that other people can use and abuse it.
You can download it here~
If megaupload breaks or anything like that, you can download it here. It's better if you tried megaupload first, because I'm hosting this on my school server space, and the school is notorious for taking the server down at the most random and inappropriate times.
Crossposted to nanowrimo and 2007nanowrimo
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Date: 2007-10-09 12:37 am (UTC)Thanks muchly for the links...they're very useful.
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Date: 2007-10-09 12:54 am (UTC)(I'm sure the resources will come in handy, too!)
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Date: 2007-10-09 01:41 pm (UTC)Also, I heart Zokutou. It's the best.
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