every time i wrote somethink and submitted it, the count only shows what i have just submitted and not the total i have sent, at the moment it shows 11165 but i know i have wrote well over 50,000 words saved them and sent them
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My 50k word was "horrified", from the beginning of the sentence:
"Father Walf looked horrified at this news and hooked the bag sharply away with his staff, causing it to clatter from next to the bound boy to end up resting by his own feet".
The 'bound boy' is my MMC, Dafyd, and Father Walf is a minor antagonist who has progressed much of the plot so far just by trying to get Dafyd executed for the crime of 'sorcery'. The scene around 50k is where Dafyd's trial is finally happening (Walf went for execution first trial second, but got thwarted by FMC at the last moment). I've spent the entire month in the 'Fantasy' forum, and only just clicked in the last few days that my story is really YA Fantasy. You would think I would have realised with a fourteen year-old FMC and an eleven year-old MMC, but no. It took passing the 50k mark and breathing a bit to notice. C'est la vie!
Oh, wow. At fifty thousand words, I still have yet to solve a murder and a sabotage, shoot down a patrol ornithopter, make a character jump off the side of the dirigible, have two dogfights, three swordfights, and an infantry battle, and get the ship to Lakehurst in one piece. At that point in the novel, the main character is examining some swords they found that presumably belong to the dreaded Le Fantome Gris.
“These look rather fancy.” Brant commented, picking one up and testing it’s weight. It was well balanced and light, perfect
That's all, folks! (what a dumb ending that would be)
Mine is kind of bad. I f it finished on the 50000th word it would have finished like this: '“To trick the king into going into that goblin-" The whole sentance is: “To trick the king into going into that goblin cave we found the other day.” There's six pages after that and that's where lots of stuff happens.
If Your Novel Stopped at 50k
Did anybody else make a note of exactly where their novel becomes 50,000 words? Was it in an awkward place? If it is, you should share.
Mine 50,000 word sentence was;
Over their heads Tara explained to Parker and Darius what had just happened, minus
THE END!
JK
... I'm going to bed now. But do share! :-D
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Kendra spoke to the group. “So, if the planet’s name
I had 50,011 to the end of the sentence, and it actually finished the book. However, when I validated, it said I had 50,117 words.
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every time i wrote somethink and submitted it, the count only shows what i have just submitted and not the total i have sent, at the moment it shows 11165 but i know i have wrote well over 50,000 words saved them and sent them
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You have to submit all 50k at once. The NaNo validator doesn't save your work, it only counts the words.
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Mine was: 'Huffily, she
From the sentence: 'Huffily, she passed them over and I scanned the words with Oliver peering over my shoulder.'
They're talking about a sheet of song lyrics. :)
I knew from about 45k it was going to end up being a bit longer, though!
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Devon's hair was full of snow.
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"Still,
That was the 50,000 word, starting a new sentence. Still have a bit of a ways to go to finish the story.
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Mom didn’t even complain when I sat down.
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"Healing isn’t a common gift."
Nicely my 50,000th word is gift.
I feel like I could make a really corny joke here, but I won't.
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My 50k word was "horrified", from the beginning of the sentence:
"Father Walf looked horrified at this news and hooked the bag sharply away with his staff, causing it to clatter from next to the bound boy to end up resting by his own feet".
The 'bound boy' is my MMC, Dafyd, and Father Walf is a minor antagonist who has progressed much of the plot so far just by trying to get Dafyd executed for the crime of 'sorcery'. The scene around 50k is where Dafyd's trial is finally happening (Walf went for execution first trial second, but got thwarted by FMC at the last moment). I've spent the entire month in the 'Fantasy' forum, and only just clicked in the last few days that my story is really YA Fantasy. You would think I would have realised with a fourteen year-old FMC and an eleven year-old MMC, but no. It took passing the 50k mark and breathing a bit to notice. C'est la vie!
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When they got back outside Riley realized how incredibly stupid it had been to get ice cream in the middle of December.
It was very anticlimactic. Who wants their 50k word to be 'been'?
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Actually mine stopped at about 49,300 words. Oops. Panic.
This called for major rewrites here and there. I added details. I added scenes. I stuffed in adjectives, adverbs.
So, my 50,000th word was Hazel, the name of my MC. I made 73 more than needed. Now for the rewrite, but not until January.
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"I could only assume that Mark was as unconscious of his actions..."
The comparison that would never be completed. How sad.
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Oh, wow. At fifty thousand words, I still have yet to solve a murder and a sabotage, shoot down a patrol ornithopter, make a character jump off the side of the dirigible, have two dogfights, three swordfights, and an infantry battle, and get the ship to Lakehurst in one piece. At that point in the novel, the main character is examining some swords they found that presumably belong to the dreaded Le Fantome Gris.
“These look rather fancy.” Brant commented, picking one up and testing it’s weight. It was well balanced and light, perfect
That's all, folks! (what a dumb ending that would be)
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"Then Gabby and her family will just have to go into..."
Into what? D:
I'd be seriously alarmed if I wasn't writing this thing.
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He had just offered me the world, and who was I to refuse that?
"the" was the 50K word´, and I've barely made the first plot point there.
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Mine is kind of bad. I f it finished on the 50000th word it would have finished like this:
'“To trick the king into going into that goblin-"
The whole sentance is:
“To trick the king into going into that goblin cave we found the other day.”
There's six pages after that and that's where lots of stuff happens.