Validate Early! Validate often! http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158 etoiline I see some of you out there who have made it to 50k already, but you don't have a purple bar. PLEASE VALIDATE YOUR NOVEL NOW. You can start winning today! Get your nifty certificate and other goodies--if you validate. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL NOVEMBER 30th TO VALIDATE. DO IT NOW. This applies to those who haven't quite reached 50k yet too: Just because your writing software says 50k does not mean NaNo's word counter thinks the same. Unfortunately you can't argue with a robot whose sole purpose is to count your words; NaNo's word count is the law. Validate now and see if you are under (or over, you lucky thing) 50k, or how many more words you have to write to make NaNo believe you have 50k. VALIDATE NOW. How do I validate? you say. Do this: <strong>View your profile&gt;&gt;Edit Novel Info&gt;&gt;I'm Ready to Validate my Novel&gt;&gt;copy/paste your entire novel into the box that pops up and hit submit.</strong> You can do this as many times as you want. Once you've reached 50k, you can continue to update your word count through the manual box at the top of each page. VALIDATE NOW. This post brought to you by the caps lock key. ~j PS. VALIDATE NOW. Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:51:24 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_842275 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_842275 KttyB78 Done. XD Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:18:24 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_842523 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_842523 Lell OMN. It's a purple bar! Inspiration! I want one for my very own! (also Mazel Tov!) Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:31:41 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_842621 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_842621 donbranson I used Google Docs to write mine. NaNo's count was lower. OpenOffice's count is much higher - about 500 words higher. It turns out that GDocs counts hyphenated words as single words, OO counts the words separately. It seems that NaNo must be counting them as one. This is an example of why you need to validate with NaNo and not wait to the last minute. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:13:21 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_851165 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_851165 KttyB78 Keep going my fellow nanoer. You're almost there. XD Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:34:17 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_853313 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_853313 WriteAway93 Just did mine and surprise, surprise I got a few extra words than what Scrivener had for me. Go figure. Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:49:23 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_876162 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_876162 Kenosaki Done! I have the validation! WOO! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:59:29 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_892213 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_892213 donbranson Wooo! Good job! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:39:34 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_892667 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/43158?page=1#forum_thread_comment_892667