If Your Novel Stopped at 50k http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112 KatBrown 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 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:52:56 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_884941 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_884941 Suzana Mazon 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. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:24:43 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_885293 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_885293 granddad chriss 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 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:46:51 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_885629 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_885629 Teide 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! Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:28:33 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_886894 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_886894 jefflion Devon's hair was full of snow. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:26:59 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_887346 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_887346 ereedak "Still, That was the 50,000 word, starting a new sentence. Still have a bit of a ways to go to finish the story. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:06:57 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_887689 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_887689 luvinpadfoot You have to submit all 50k at once. The NaNo validator doesn't save your work, it only counts the words. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:13:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_887745 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_887745 spoons214 Mom didn’t even complain when I sat down. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:35:40 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_891158 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_891158 hazeltwilight "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. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:15:15 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_900521 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_900521 shadowsmith 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! Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:08:18 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_901139 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_901139 luvinpadfoot 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'? Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:29:53 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_902081 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_902081 Karen Smith 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. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:07:16 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_902559 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_902559 PioneerGal "I could only assume that Mark was as unconscious of his actions..." The comparison that would never be completed. How sad. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:48:30 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_912019 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_912019 ussauklet 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) Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:38:46 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_920248 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_920248 ImmaSammich "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. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:50:45 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_920717 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_920717 Coffeedrinker 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. Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:29:58 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_927390 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_927390 jordan.williams42 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. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:53:47 -0800 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_965888 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/young-adult-children-s-lit/threads/45112?page=1#forum_thread_comment_965888