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Nanowrimo and typewriting

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I am a happy user of an Underwood 5, an old typewriter from the beginning of the XX century. I use it to type letters, short stories, greeting cards, and labels.

I am now planning to try and type the next Nanowrimo.

On a computer I can blob out 2000 words a day in 90 minutes. It is also easy to keep track of progress, edit and copy-paste sections around.

My worry is that the typewriter, besides being inherently slower than a computer keyboard, will have an added management overhead. Nanowrimo amplifies this issue by adding a time constraint.

I am looking for an efficient way, or some non-digital tools to manage writing a 60,000+ words novel on a typewriter while keeping the writing ordered.

For instance: I thought of having a printed Excel table on the side, where I plan the novel in advance, and write down the page numbers as I write. It sounds like a nightmare if I retrospectively insert a chapter somewhere.

To give an idea of the specific scenarios that I am worrying about:

  • I need to add some foreshadowing before X happens: where is the page where X happen?

  • Retrospectively inserting a chapter somewhere.

  • I don't like this character name anymore, let me change it.

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How about a three ring binder?

It would make it easy to insert a new chapter, although it won't solve the issue of needing to make edits. Perhaps you can have list of notes at the beginning for keeping track of things like changing a characters name? You can then refer to that list of things that need to be changed when editing (after NaNoWriMo).

And I suppose if you need to add something into the middle of a page, you could cut it in half to insert a new page between them. Smaller sections would likely needed to be glued to a new piece of paper.

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