Seeing those purple Winner bars, I remembered to get mine this year - (leaving the verification until December last year was a mistake).
But the point is: it gave me another 500 words without me writing a word today (yet)! The official Nano Word Counter is a bit more generous than the word count in my word-processor.
So some of you struggling on with bleeding fingers as you approach the line might be closer than you think, if you've just been entering your word counts directly.
That might be encouraging!
(And it doesn't hurt those you are using the web-site for word-counting, 'cos at least you don't have to worry that the official count will be less.)
C.
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50,403 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2007 - 13 20
Congratulations! I'm down to the last 5k now, so I hope that by the end of tomorrow I can share the imperial colour with you. Well done.
50,060 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2007 - 15 18
congrats you all purple people.
I've gone a bit slow this weekend, domestic stuff just getting in the way. That and I feel like I'm doing macrame with lots of plot and character threads. It's very slow, trying to get them all to join up. But I'm going to catch up and more hopefully tomorrow.
Julia
50,000 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2007 - 15 28
Congrats to everyone who has finished (or is getting close).
I'm lagging quite a bit behind (busy, complicated weekend), but I'll get there in the end. 3k a day is doable. I just need to do it.
61,091 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2007 - 17 05
I've gone a bit slow this weekend, domestic stuff just getting in the way.
But you are over 40K already! I think that halfway is the biggest milestone, but for me 40K is the one that I'm happiest about reaching. Once you pass 40K, you know you are going to be a winner!
And Beancounter is already over 45K. You can practically hear the sound of the champagne corks popping, as the stewards get ready to wrap him/her/it in kitchen foil as he/she crosses the line ...
Although there are about 4 Brighton nanowrimos all about to cross that line. Who will be next?
Mith - you can do it. Only a few more words and you'll be over that magic 40K line. Then you won't be able to resist that last stretch towards the finish!
Julia
Tell me about it! LOL. I like happy endings, but I have 46 named characters in my nano novel. Ok, they are not all main characters, but I'm trying to pair them off to live happily ever after, and I had two girls left over. So I popped out to my local just after 10pm (it closes at 10.30 on Sundays) for a short break (nothing on telly) to do some plot thinking.
It was fairly quiet, so I explained to the barmaid (Amber) that I was trying to finish my Nano novel. She looked at me as if I must be mad! Or a novelist! And I was still only on my first pint.
Oh, well. ;-)
Ch.
50,046 / 50,000
Nov 26, 2007 - 02 16
Well done everyone - hope to make it this week, only 2640 words a day to succeed. I am aiming for a bit more to try and make it a day early, but it's unlikely... :P
*starts sprint finish*
50,060 / 50,000
Nov 26, 2007 - 03 30
Surely a Brighton boy knows that two girls can be paired off to live happily ever after!!!
Thanks for your kind words, Chromo. I'm on it today!!!
57,058 / 50,000
Nov 26, 2007 - 04 07
I should, in theory, be able to cross the line today - it's only a little under 3k away, and I think I did about 3.5 yesterday. The thing is, I've hit the 40k wall. Well, it's not a wall, just the opposite of a sprint, I guess. I've got a stitch a couple of hundred yards from the end of the marathon and I'm limping along. I know I should be able to make it in a few big strides and be there in seconds, but I'm limping along and letting people pass me, while I take a few minutes to get to the end.
Maybe I'll push through the pain and try to finish tomorrow.
50,060 / 50,000
Nov 26, 2007 - 04 41
What i'd like to know is - have all you purple people reached the end of your novels? Or are there still things that need to be written? Have you sketched in the plot details for filling out in revision. What do you do?
Julia
60,477 / 50,000
Nov 26, 2007 - 10 14
Julia
http://www.nanowrimo.org/wordcount_api/wc/123625
Nowhere near finished. I have about half of the first draft still to do and plot holes the size of the Grand Canyon to fill. Sub plots need work too. And it's all going to have to wait as I have a proper commission for December, and right now, I have flu. This is the first time I've been near the computer today, and I've done no writing, not even long hand. But I WILL get this done.
50,174 / 50,000
Nov 26, 2007 - 10 34
I've passed the finishing line. Nano clocked me in generously at 50,174. Phew! But I've still got quite a lot of words (another 20,000 perhaps) to finish the novel. Then the real work begins - editing and rewriting. The novel is full of contradictions and sub-plots that are undeveloped or haven't gone anywhere. I'll have to sort that lot out. And then? Who knows?
I look forward to seeing everyone who can make it, at the Caxton on Thursday. Otherwise TGIO.
Best of luck, everyone!
57,058 / 50,000
Nov 27, 2007 - 12 03
Finished!
So, how many people beat me across the line?
It's officially the earliest I've been finished - in fact, it's the first time I've been finished before the 30th. I also plane to beat my previous wordcount record, so I'll be carrying on for a bit - my target's 52k, so there's only about 1.5 to go. I might even get there tonight. Maybe I should reset my target to 55k, to give our wordwar average a little boost. It will make it harder next year to beat my total, though - I aim for a thousand more each year.
I can't believe I'm finished and I still have an evening and three whole days before the deadline!
50,060 / 50,000
Nov 27, 2007 - 12 18
Well done! I'm coming up the rear. As it were.
50,330 / 50,000
Nov 27, 2007 - 12 58
Uggghhh - staggering over the line - my last two chapters are probably not the most eloquent in the English language.
Still, the Hollywood ending is in place, the plot lines are tied up (or at least bashed, battered and stuffed, limp and expiring, into roughly the right place).
This has been ten times more difficult than last year...
50,403 / 50,000
Nov 27, 2007 - 15 24
Made it! (By the way, it's a she!)
I'm sure it wasn't quite so much of a struggle last year. Other than re-writes and editing, mine story is just about complete - though as a point of principle, I have to add in the Tasmanian Devil, that should be good for another few hundred words. So, come on all those almost there, we may not be able to win the war, but we can get the greatest number of finishers!
50,075 / 50,000
Nov 27, 2007 - 16 33
Not made it yet, but hope to in the next couple of days. I'm feeling a little bit like this at the moment...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1liVGnQ1230
50,132 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2007 - 11 04
Almost there...
50,075 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2007 - 12 15
Ugh! Made it, just. Even though my last 2000 words were without question the worst I've ever written. I still feel a disproportionate glow of achievement, and I'm going to have a cup of tea to celebrate. Hoorah!
If you haven't got there, yet, keep going!
:))
50,000 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 13 04
~collapses in a heap~
50,026 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 13 11
Would it be terribly bad to upload last years just so I can get a purple "winner" bar? (Or should I be happy with my green "handwritten" one?)
61,091 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 14 48
I survived a year with a green one (by mistake) but it's really how would you feel about it? You're a winner, so you are entitled to a winner bar.
If you'd like the winner's certificate, and the winner logos to decorate your blogs/websites/whatever, you'll need to upload something to get them along with purpleness, I think.
It would seem to me unfair to exclude people who've written the words by pen - it's actually harder than typing them, isn't it?
OTOH, anyone who hasn't written any words at all, but uploads a book downloaded from Project Gutenberg isn't a cheat: they're just sad. It's not like there is any reward except the satisfaction of knowing you've done it. (And it's not like purple is more proof than green, because it would be so easy to cheat.)
Actually, that's one of the things I like about Nano. It's so easy to cheat there's no point.
Look at the people who wrote only 10K or 30K - they can be proud of what they have achieved! It's still more than most people wrote in November. Most of them did nothing creative.
Summary: get your purple. (Unless you can think of a good reason why you shouldn't - but I can't think of one.)
Chromomancer
50,046 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 16 33
YAY *strokes purpleness*