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[damselfish]

Since I know a bunch of you guys use Scrivener, I thought I'd share this bit of weirdness with you:

I knew I had 49,800 words or so when I sat down to write last week, and I wrote and wrote... and the "total" was stuck at about 49,964 even though it says I wrote 1,000. I figured something was wrong with the counter, compiled, and the word doc also said about 49,900 words.

I remembered that I had a problem with compiling where it dropped random sub-docs, so I went in to see what was checked, saw a few missing, and hit "include all."

...Current novel was 56k.

I was wondering why it hovered just below 50k no matter how much it felt like I wrote. I thought I was just having a really awful time writing and accomplishing nothing. Apparently I was phantom writing in sub-documents that Scrivener didn't think were worthy of inclusion.

Though now that I'm up to about 60,000 (out of a projected 80,000), I wonder if I should bear down and try to finish this draft before finals, or just continue messing around with short stories. I have the MPRE on November 5th, finals coming up late November, and I'm in a job application frenzy. 20,000! That's about a month's worth of dedicated writing. I sooooo want to be finished with it.....

It's so weird that it's the most fleshed out novel I've written, plot-wise, and yet it drags so hard. I know what needs to happen, but I just can't write it.