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NaNoWriMo 2018 Word Counts

ThinkerX

Myth Weaver
My rule of thumb is to write at least a little in the current POV tonight, even if it's a mere token, even if it's junk. Tonight was such a night. Between the play (pretty good!) and other obligations, time sort of flew away from me. Still...200 words. Not enough to finish that short story - er - novelette.
 

ThinkerX

Myth Weaver
a thousand words last night, and another 700 tonight. I would have finished, but I ran into a 'think-about-it' section almost at the very end. Literally basic math and logic.
 

ThinkerX

Myth Weaver
Took a couple tries, but I'm calling the novelette finished at 13,700 words - triple the length originally envisioned. Time to judge Top Scribe, and then get moving on the rewrite of 'Empire: Metropolis.'
 
I don't know if I'll reach 50,000 within the deadline. I pretty much have to go back and change things a lot, and write more new scenes, and make one character into a ghost, and seamlessly meld my new official magic system into it, and rebuild the story from the end of Part 3 onward, and fix everything...but I keep procrastinating. *sigh*
 
But wait! I could write a scene that I wouldn't have to rewrite later, to get to the 50,000 mark, and then fix things later. Any idea what a vegetarian coyote and a vegetarian raven dining with a werewolf, a fox spirit, and two ghosts would eat for breakfast?
 

ThinkerX

Myth Weaver
But wait! I could write a scene that I wouldn't have to rewrite later, to get to the 50,000 mark, and then fix things later. Any idea what a vegetarian coyote and a vegetarian raven dining with a werewolf, a fox spirit, and two ghosts would eat for breakfast?
the werewolf might regard the raven as food. Do Spirits / ghosts need to eat?
 

ThinkerX

Myth Weaver
Word count for the past couple of days is zero. Partially this is the 'I finished the novelette and want a break' deal, partly it's family stuff, but mostly it's 'I just spent four freaking months on the last big rewrite - and that was a shorter tale' (though in worse shape.) I'll have to start it with a careful read-through. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe get a few chapters fixed before NaNo ends...
 

A. E. Lowan

Forum Mom
Leadership
No word count. I stopped counting a while back. But I did finish the chapter I was stuck on, so there's that! One more day to go. You guys are doing great!
 

ThinkerX

Myth Weaver
I made it!

Just to be on the safe side, how many more words should I add, to try to combat the word counter?

[Hopefully someone will reply before I have to submit!]
depends on the word processor you are using - which is why I allow a buffer of 200-300 words with Top Scribe. Can't say anything about the others, but the MS Word count is usually less than that employed by NaNo - by a couple hundred words on longer pieces.
 
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