just a newbie question

Fifty thousand words does constitute a "win" as far as Nano is concerned. As for someone reading it, that is all up to you. Polish it up and get it in the hands of an editor when it's done!

If you want help or feedback I'm sure any of your fellow Tulsa Wrimos (myself included) would be willing to read your work at the end and give you some solid feedback and praise :)

Hope this helps,
Frank

50K words is all the site cares about. If you wanted you could transcribe 25,000 names from the phone book. (don't recommend that though--not much room left for character development or setting). Your definition of a win can and may well be different. I'm hoping to stay in NaNoWriMode till I finish my "crappy first draft" which may be over the 50K limit and/or take a smidge longer than a month. Then I'm going to hide the thing in the recesses of my hard drive for at least 2 weeks. then I'm going to read it. Once I pick myself off the floor from the suckitude, I'll decide if anyone else can/will see it. I have other friends with different goals. my first writing partner, a friend of mine who is a published paranormal romance writer, is shooting for 80K. My mom, OTOH, just wants to write every day for a month, whether or not she hits the magic number.

I guess that was a long winded way of saying "Yes", and "nobody reads the work unless you hand it to them".

thanks so much for your responses! i am really enjoying my first nano experience!