Oh, Windows.
Nov. 21st, 2008 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Well. Windows went belly-up on me, so I had to reinstall. Aaaaaaaand I lost all my files. Now, most of them are backed up, you know, from the Great Move. But not all of them.
Like, that novel I've been wrestling with for NaNo 2008.
So. Here's the question. Do I keep my most recent posted count, and just keep working from there? I DO NOT have the kind of texty proof the NaNo website demands regarding wordcount (namely, the file from which to copy-paste).
Now I'm off to download some of the other software that went by the wayside in the reinstall. Color me unimpressed.
Like, that novel I've been wrestling with for NaNo 2008.
So. Here's the question. Do I keep my most recent posted count, and just keep working from there? I DO NOT have the kind of texty proof the NaNo website demands regarding wordcount (namely, the file from which to copy-paste).
Now I'm off to download some of the other software that went by the wayside in the reinstall. Color me unimpressed.
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Date: 2008-11-21 01:03 pm (UTC)Also, recent documents may have it? ARGH. I've had that happen before and I'm so sorry if it's truly gone. *plays taps* Keep your most recent count.
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Date: 2008-11-21 01:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-21 02:44 pm (UTC)I say keep your word count. You earned it. They don't actually read what you have when you send it in, I hear--they just check to make sure it's real text and then run a word count on it. So you can always cut-and-paste something old up to the same number, just to fill in. It's not like you didn't actually write the damn thing.
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Date: 2008-11-22 01:01 pm (UTC)I say use the current word count, and when it comes to the "text proof" just use one of those "lorem ipsum" text generator thingys to generate the missing word count. I know that they even suggest people do that if someone's writing the thing longhand and doesn't want to type it all in just for the word count.