National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) 2010: is over. :( Come in and see who won!

Congrads to those who are done, good luck to those who are not; I am sitting at a Total Words Remaining of 3,386

Counting down, not up now *grin* another night like last night and I'm gold!! Woot!

I've sent them. Please let me know if you have any trouble with the email.

Congrats to the winners that are showing up!

I've liberated myself from feeling guilty if I lose, if for no other reason that that this year really hasn't been that much fun, which is the whole point of NaNo. I'm still cheering everyone along, those.

Congrats to the other winners and those still struggling along! I guess I better go plug them into the NaNo website before I forget and don't win by stupidity.

Etain: How did you fix OO?

OO is counting typographic quotation marks as a word.
If you substitute them with straight ones, it does not count them anymore. That means: the more dialogue you have with the 'wrong' quotation marks, the more words that are not there will be counted. I had some ratehr dialouge heavy chapters and man, did that hurt.

That's got to suck. Hopefully you can still make it to 50k!

moose
Problem not.
I am over 46k now and still have four chapters with at least 1667 words ahead of me.
Time to wrap things up and present the coupke with a pretty ribbon around them. Yay.

Finishing for today on 42,000 words. I really need to write a lot tomorrow but I'm not sure I can.

Ending the day, a day behind. Tomorrow I will catch up (and hopefully get ahead). I took yesterday off and only got a little bit of story writing in for today, but my friend did sketch up one of my species - so I am super excited!

I did it, I did it! 51, 442 for a word count and still going! B ut I'm over that 50K mark! Yay!

First try at this - success! Woot!!

congrads to everyone else who's done too!!

Have passed the 57 K mark today. A lot slower but DRL - even in the evenings and on my free saturday - is causing that. And I have only finished the first part of the three part story with only the outlines for the next two and the final part.

Congrats to all who have won and for all still writing.

I hit 45k and I've got more to write before I stop today! I just wanted to say that I'm caught up and I'm sure I'll make it now!

Edit: stopping for the night at 48,904 words. So close to the end but it's 3am here and I need sleep.

Stopping at 33,863 for the night.

I Is Winner!
Validated because I could at 50,101.
Still have 2 1/2 chapters to write plus the half I lost but ~ winner!
If I get much more done, I'll validate again with more words, but that is not so imporatnt anymore.
I'll hog my voucher and be happy.

I won with a final total of 50,107 words according to the NaNoWriMo site, and 50,106 according to Word 2007. More than a little chuffed with that.

Now begins the arduous editing journey before I decide what to do with it.

I'm at 41,423 words.

Funny how much a sibling implying than you can't write 12K in three days can motivate you.

Sibling challenges can be great motivators!

I broke 50k right before dinner! *happy dance*

*reality check* I still don't have half the story written!

*returns to happy dancing*

Ending the night at 41,195.

I finished at nearly 51000 last night.

So yay.

I checked the site yesterday, and apparently having put in my winning word count two weeks ago was enough to make them put up the winner's badges now. I'm happy. I still can't believe I actually finished this year!

Congratulations to everyone who finished! Two more days to go!