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| Off to Tassie for Christmas and New Year.
Verdi is going to be alone for a little while until ironicshell and friend turn up on Boxing Day to feed and water him, and then Kelly arrives to stay on the 27th.
Call Emma's mobile if you need to. |   |
| My little plan to hit 100,000 words was derailed by needing to sleep on the night of the 29th; at that stage I had reached 86,000, and I really needed to be closer to 91,000. I wrote about 7,000 words on the last day, but there was no way I was going to be able to write 14,000. I had given up on the idea of a sprint to the end by about 8 pm, and went back to my usual style this month, trying to write a reasonable quality of first draft, rather than slavishly chasing after the word count.
( Very lengthy novel stats under the lj-cut. )
If I printed it out as a paperback novel (my PDF is set to have approximately the same line/word count as a paperback) it would currently be 340 pages. And I'd say I'm only halfway there! | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| Except the word validator on the website subtracts 300 words compared to the word count in TextWrangler.
So, I only need add about another 100 or so words in the next 11 days.
No sweat.
(Actually, just doing a little editing added 1,000 words, as per below.)
November 20: ~50,600 words (a little consolidation of yesterday's 50k)
Foreword etc, 8 paragraphs, 1050 words
Prologue, 15 paragraphs, 804 words
Chapter 1, 36 paragraphs, 2344 words
Chapter 2, 50 paragraphs, 2561 words
Chapter 3, 34 paragraphs, 2000 words
Chapter 4, 31 paragraphs, 2247 words
Chapter 5, 36 paragraphs, 2410 words
Chapter 6, 51 paragraphs, 2219 words
Chapter 7, 91 paragraphs, 3660 words
Chapter 8, 99 paragraphs, 3442 words
Chapter 9, 66 paragraphs, 2423 words
Chapter 10, 55 paragraphs, 1689 words
Chapter 11, 28 paragraphs, 1378 words
Chapter 12, 82 paragraphs, 1831 words
Chapter 13, 46 paragraphs, 1410 words
Chapter 14, 97 paragraphs, 3429 words
Chapter 15, 111 paragraphs, 2793 words
Chapter 16, 16 paragraphs, 663 words [most of this chapter not written yet]
Chapter 17, 87 paragraphs, 2247 words
Chapter 18, 32 paragraphs, 1420 words
Chapter 19, 44 paragraphs, 1924 words
Chapter 20, 102 paragraphs, 3711 words | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Not feeling terribly inspired today, but will press on regardless... Maybe I'll go and write the "bloodbath" chapter. | | |
| | And I'm writing on two different fronts, having realised after writing a page or two of dialogue that it can't have happened yet. So that will have to go into a chapter entitled "LATER"... | | |
| | ... and my main character just lost his bollocks... | | |
| | Slow day. | | |
| | Halfway to the minimum target, but yum cha has made me sleepy... | | |
| Just getting into the nasty stuff. Mwahahahaha!
And taking a laptop to bed to continue writing is good. Even if I can't see what's on the screen... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Yay. | | |
| | Should hit the 1/3 way mark later tonight... (was at ~16,100/50,000) | | |
| | Another chapter down... | | |
| 13500 words... woot.
That's a quarter of the way to 50,000 and I'm only six and a bit chapters in. Heck.
Stats later. | | |
| | Slow day. | | |
| Still only a prologue and 3 chapters (and chapter 3 unfinished again, WTFBBQ!?), mainly because I joined yesterday's chapters 1 and 2 together, finished yesterday's "chapter 3" with another 1600 words, and made a good start on today's chapter 3 - and to my surprise one rather racy moment made it into the chapter while I wasn't looking at the plot, just telling out the story... hehehe...
Rather than keep this open for comments, I'm only going to allow comments on the November 1st thread (and each following Saturday), so chat to me there if you wish. :)
Stats: 117 paragraphs, ~6900 words, 37159 characters
Prologue, 15 paragraphs, ~800 words (I split a paragraph in two for emphasis)
Chapter 1, 35 paragraphs, ~2250 words
Chapter 2, 44 paragraphs, ~2450 words
Chapter 3, 23 paragraphs, ~1400 words [so far; at least another 700 to come]
Joining yesterday's chapter 1 and 2 together was a good move, it now consists of two balanced halves (day and night, you could say :), there was a short addition of a sentence or two here which forced a long paragraph to be broken, which is why the numbers changed slightly from yesterday.
Yikes. Looking at the lengths of those three chapters, maybe I'll be writing an average 2000 words per chapter, which could mean 150,000+ if I get all the way to the projected 93. I suppose I shouldn't have drawn up such a complicated plot...
Choir rehearsals for the next two nights, so I don't expect to get much further until Wednesday. | | |
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I have registered at NaNoWriMo under a nom de plume; it is not an anagram of Philip M. Legge, though it might have the letters P, M, L somewhere in there. (And there are only about a couple of dozen short of a thousand Melburnians writing away at the present time, which won't make it easy for you to guess which one I am.) I won't be posting anything on-line to indicate what I am doing; which is the usual way I work - it only will appear as a complete MS when I've actually finished writing it (which may be after November 30). I have a long synopsis drafted with my favourite writing pen in a red book that some people will have seen me scribbling in a lot recently. I think I plotted out 93 "chapters" - or shall we just say "plot events", since I realised I'd left out one tiny but important establishing bit of exposition that had to occur between "chapter 1" and "chapter 2", and it basically became a new chapter...
My "chapters" look like they'll be on average 1,000 word length, though I'm aware that some of the action around chapters 60 are going to be quite wordy. Think of Sir Thomas More being tried for high treason in "A Man for All Seasons" for an explanation. So the total length will be heading towards 100,000 words.
Stats: 71 paragraphs, ~3800 words, 20612 characters
Prologue: 14 paragraphs, ~800 words
Chapter 1: 18 paragraphs, ~1200 words
Chapter 2: 16 paragraphs, ~1000 words
Chapter 3: 23 paragraphs, ~800 words (I'll have to continue chapter 3 again after some sleep)
Some random words: mountainside, bobbing, ague. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| The International Sheet Music Library Project (IMSLP) is by no means the first or only attempt to gather together public domain sheet music of a large variety of composers whose works arguably represent the foundation of Western art music, or classical music. It only happened to be one of the best organised technically, and was rapidly becoming one of the largest such sites on the Internet. That the website was conceived and administered by a Canadian university student is a testament to the empowerment of the individual that the Internet is able to provide.
Where IMSLP seems to have over-reached itself, is in the realm of national and international copyright. Canadian law has resolutely stayed at copyright for the term of the author's life plus fifty years, while much of Europe is now at life plus 70. The wedge of 20 extra years for an author's work to be exploitable in Europe was sufficient for at least one European publisher to send cease-and-desist letters and an associated ultimatum from their Canadian legal representatives, to prevent IMSLP from offering works that while in the public domain in Canada, were still under copyright in Europe. Despite offers of legal assistance from several legal departments at Canadian universities should the matter have proceeded to litigation, in the end the university student capitulated and took down the entire site.
It is worth mentioning that IMSLP operated two main servers, one holding works in the public domain under Canadian law (life+50) and hosted in Canada, while another server located in the United States held works published prior to 1923, deemed as public domain there in accordance with the historically-enacted laws that emphasised the date of publication rather than the lifespan of the author. By having two complementary ranges of scores available, the site aimed to offer "the most public domain music to the citizens of any particular country, as permitted by law".
It was this generosity that came unstuck: despite the site having an elaborate copyright tagging system that would give end-users notice of compositions that fall under copyright in certain jurisdictions, there was no technical means in place to block downloads as prevention of copyright violation. The second cease-and-desist letter mentioned that IMSLP had not implemented IP filtering, despite this being a poor safeguard technically: both easily subverted and porous. For most of the centuries-old public domain works, such means would not be necessary as the works are regarded as public domain more or less everywhere: instead the whole site has been undone by the works in the ambiguous copyright state generated by a lack of "harmonisation" between different national jurisdictions.
What is lamentable about the demise of the IMSLP is that many of the works that the European publishers objected to are ostensibly in the public domain in Europe: Alban Berg, Leos Janacek, Ottorino Respighi and Gustav Mahler all died prior to 1937 (the crucial date for "life+70"), and all but one of the other composers named in the cease-and-desist letter died more than fifty years ago: the sole exception, who died in 1964, is represented by pre-1923 works in the public domain in the United States, and hosted there. Perhaps in the case of Mahler, who died 96 years ago, we see that the publisher had their Mexican interests in mind: the copyright term in Mexico covers the duration of the author's life, and 100 years afterwards.
One well-respected and knowledgeable contributor to the site, with wide experience in the music publishing industry, views this as just the first step in attacking the global public domain: if some multi-national corporation wanted to go to the trouble of purchasing a sovereign island nation somewhere, it could then proclaim perpetual copyright as law, and hire legal firms all over the world to enforce copyright via threats of lawsuits.
Philip Legge, 22 October 2007
© 2007 Philip Legge, under the Creative Commons share-alike licence (CC-by-sa-3.0 unported) | | comments: Leave a comment |
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