In a little over two hours, National Novel Writing Month begins! The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel in the 30 days of November. I planned to participate two years ago, but this year I am determined to finish. 50,000 words in 30 days is a mere 1667 words per day. I plan to emulate my favorite author, Anthony Trollope, and spend my commuting time on my novel. So farewell to facebook from my iPhone and games of Spider Solitaire and Bookworm. It’s not too late to sign up! This year I really will write my novel.
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Quote of the Moment:
“A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it ever would be so. By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment when it is useful; and that this lapse of time can be anything from 30 to 100 years, in some cases even more; and that the whole system seems to function without any direction, without any reference to usefulness, and without any desire to do things which are useful.”
by John von Neuwmann
by John von Neuwmann
1,667 words is roughly 5 pages. I prefer to think in pages because dialogue takes up pages but doesn’t add up to a lot of words. I think there is irony in that sentence if one mines for it…..
Thanks for the translation into pages. That gives me a much better idea of progress. And I do like the irony of dialogue taking up a lot of pages but not adding up to a lot of words.