NaNoWriMo, day five
End of writing on day five, and my word count now stands at 12,463 using my new wordcount script that uses Perl to strip out the XML tags before it passes it along to wc. Thus it’s slightly lower than it would be using the old method, which is simply to call wc directly, as wc counts XML tags as words.
It also means that chapter titles, since they’re attributes in this particular XML application, don’t get counted in my word count, which means a few bonus words when this is rendered into plain text (via XSLT) for sending off to NaNoWriMo for verification at the end of the month. Woohoo!
Anyway, I got 463 words over today’s target, so that means tomorrow’s target is around about 14,500 words, with 15,000 being more ideal. Things proceed at quite a remarkable pace.