Still W minus 33,333

[korivak]

One of the things that I noticed recently is that since my NaNo Report Card tracks both daily and ongoing performance, I still feel compelled to keep up a very strict pace even when I am significantly ahead of schedule. I may be way, way ahead by the overall picture, but if I slow down on any one single day it still stands out in bright red. This

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[vektortgecko]

This is, of course working under the presumption that a word-graph with a roughly constantly positive slope (ie. never getting smaller) is optimal for writing.

Disregard the notion that an ever-accelerating pace of writing is the ideal method of working (even 9-5 drones get 2 days a week off). As well, the writing will suffer if you push too hard to make a wordcount quota past the point where you actually have meaningful and relevant words to contribute to the count (ie. it becomes useless filler)

And finally, the best argument is that a constant positive slope is a flawed model because it is unsustainable. Any line with a constant positive slope, as you extend to an infinite X axis (in this case time), would approach infinity.

lim(|n|x) as x->INF, where n is nonzero = INF

In other words, to sustain this writing model, you will eventually need more than 24 hours in a day doing nothing but writing.

[ilurker]

It's the No Writer Left Behind act!

[nalakd]

Or you could be like me and not have written anything for four days now as you feel like crawling into a hole and just dying from the aches and pains you suffer from and the lack of money to go do anything about them

*dies*