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With the change in website for NaNoWriMo came changes in how and when goals are set by participants. Namely you can set your own writing challenge whenever you want. You can also make it a goal for an existing project. That second one is great as I've done Camp projects that are just editing something already existing on the projects list. I'd love to be able to consolidate these old entries but since the site doesn't allow backdating new goals to that time period (also it doesn't allow anything other than word counts right now, kinda also a problem for my purposes) I've left them alone.
I did try out the new goal setting function and it works alright. It defaulted to 50k words and I couldn't decide on a different number so I left it as-is. Updating the count each day has been easy - no different than it was during November. There's a day-to-day tracker with a couple of graphs to tickle one's fancy. It also automatically updates one's daily average which it uses to estimate when the goal will be reached. This estimate is a little fiddly though. I did hit 50k last night, which is when the site predicted I would, but I actually wrote significantly above my average because I knew I was so close. If I had stayed on average (2,000 words per day) I would have run one day over estimate. All in all it has worked fine. I just wish I could get to the graphs from the front page. Instead I have to go to the project page, click on goals, then the goal I'm working on. Not long or difficult but a little tedious.
Camp rapidly approaches. I haven't decided if I'll participate in the April edition as I am a bit spent from the spring I just finished. Maybe, maybe not.
I did try out the new goal setting function and it works alright. It defaulted to 50k words and I couldn't decide on a different number so I left it as-is. Updating the count each day has been easy - no different than it was during November. There's a day-to-day tracker with a couple of graphs to tickle one's fancy. It also automatically updates one's daily average which it uses to estimate when the goal will be reached. This estimate is a little fiddly though. I did hit 50k last night, which is when the site predicted I would, but I actually wrote significantly above my average because I knew I was so close. If I had stayed on average (2,000 words per day) I would have run one day over estimate. All in all it has worked fine. I just wish I could get to the graphs from the front page. Instead I have to go to the project page, click on goals, then the goal I'm working on. Not long or difficult but a little tedious.
Camp rapidly approaches. I haven't decided if I'll participate in the April edition as I am a bit spent from the spring I just finished. Maybe, maybe not.
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