NaThesisWriMo?

So if you have friends who write fiction, you've probably heard of National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo, where they all try to write 50,000 words during the month of November. Why November? Because the people who started it wanted to take advantage of the more miserable weather. Fair enough.

To help motivate myself, I've decided to adapt the concept for thesis/paper writing. 50,000 words is probably longer than my entire thesis should be (50,000 words ~ 200 double spaced pages without figures). Instead, I'm setting my goals as adding 10,000 words to my thesis, and an additional 5,000 words in papers. I'm also going to *gasp* update the blog with progress reports. (References are not included in the word counts). Unlike the actual NaNoWriMo, there's no prizes, other than things being done. Which is a pretty awesome prize.

Starting Metrics:
Ch. 1 - 561
Ch. 2 - 1,650
Ch. 3 - 1,185
Ch. 4 - 36
Ch. 5 - 41
Ch. 6 - 7
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           3,480

Paper 1 (Ch. 1) - 5,504
Paper 2 (Ch. 3) - 1,102
Paper 3 (Ch. 3) - 1,635
Paper 4 (Ch. 4) - 2,906 {currently in advisor limbo}
Paper 5 (Ch. 4) - 1,222
Paper 6 (Ch. 5) - 155
Paper 7 (not even slightly related to my thesis) - 1,811
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                            14,335


The papers relevant to Chapter 2 are already written, and hence are not included in the totals (but total 7,764 words, which may help Ch. 2 expand a bit more quickly)

Thesis Meter:

0 / 10000 (0.00%)

Paper Meter:

0 / 5000 (0.00%)