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[callistahogan]

I REACHED 30K!

I seriously didn't think I would reach it today, but I did. This is partly due to my ingenious strategy of figuring out how many pages makes up approximately a thousand words (in OO, it's between two and three pages, by the way), and then not letting myself stop writing until I've filled that amount of pages. Or, you know, until I finish one page.

This is helpful because, instead of waiting to take a break after a thousand words, I wait to take a break until after a page is done. Then, while I'm taking my break, I can calculate about how many pages I need to fill before I have written a thousand words.

Rinse, repeat.

This strategy is working quite well. I hope to use it tomorrow and who knows? I wrote four thousand words in about four hours (would have taken me less than that, probably, had I not gotten sidetracked by Dancing With the Stars), so I might be able to double that tomorrow.

I hope so.

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In other news:

This morning in English class, we were discussing Elie Wiesel's Night and somehow it turned into some sort of whole theological debate, about whether God can be paralleled to Hitler or not, whether Moishe the Beadle's words to Eliezer were saying "You are God" or something else, and all of that incredibly dense stuff that people spend lifetimes studying.

I found it interesting, but after the Hitler comment, I spoke up, and I think I made a lot of sense. Of course, I could be wrong, but I just had to say something. There are so many differences between Hitler and God, definitely, and I could write a whole post on that sometime. Oh, and a whole post on a parallel I saw, about how Voldemort pretty much parallels Hitler in ways. I might write that.

Hmm.

*goes off to think*

Comments

[alexseanchai]

How are you defining 'God' and how were the other people defining 'God'? Because by any definition of 'God' that includes 'inflicts the nastiest punishment in his power on anyone who meets X qualification' where X is something beyond that person's control (such as being born ethnically Jewish, or having longstanding beliefs on the nature of supernatural beings that are too strong for hearing the phrase 'Jesus Christ' to destroy them), yeah, God has a lot in common with Hitler.

The Voldemort = Hitler post has been done several times that I've seen. I won't say you shouldn't write it, but I don't know what you could say that hasn't been said.

[terriblyiconic.livejournal.com]

Ugh, people who make the "omg God is a jerk" thing bother me. I don't believe in a higher power really, but from my days as a Catholic, God never caused harm, he gave humans free will and humans cause harm. People who say crap like that give atheists/agnostics a bad name.

Congrats at 30K! I'm at...14...*shame*

[mosinging1986.livejournal.com]

Good heavens, what utter blasphemy to even attempt to equate God with Hitler! One creates the world and shows so much love for a creation which hates Him that instead of destroying them all, He dies on its behalf in order to provide forgiveness.

The other destroys millions of lives (created by that same God, by the way) for no reason except hatred.

Yeah, I see the comparsion.
/sarcasm

People never cease to astound me.