10K is a big achievement! Celebrate it here by telling us what your 10,000th word is.
(Actually, it's nice to have the whole sentence it's in for context--
especially if it turns out to be one of the lesser stars in the verbal sky, like "a" or "but".)
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poetT / Teri
ML in the black hat




37,708 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 18 03
Well, certainly not the most stellar sentence I've created but it is a complete one. Not sure it helps much with the context...anyway TA-DAH, my 10,000 word--"talked":
Unfortunately she was talked out of this one as well.
50,471 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 19 35
My 10,00th word happens to be: "word"
40,800 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 20 13
"is"
From...
"This is not what I want."
----------Using NaNo to complete my second book in this imagined series...
In Search of Truth: The Sherwood Chronicles
1. Stained
2. Forest of Lies (written!)
3. Unbroken
4. The Bow (NaNo)
and hopefully more...
88,888 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 20 40
"Isn't it just a phase? Don't they grow out of it?"
----------To victory!
35,892 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 03 05
"Fearless"
"It had never crossed her mind before that she might be fearless, but in that instant, it was either be brave or piss yourself."
Hey, you asked. ^_^
----------~*The most amazing thing about being an artist, of any sort, is the inescapable ability to see the world as beautiful, no matter the state of it's being.~*
50,176 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 06 38
had
They carefully left the room the way they had found it when they arrived the day before.
42,004 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 10 50
"Monkey"
"The Monkey rolled to his feet easily."
The Monkey being a costumed vigilante who is currently in the midst of stopping a mugging
50,459 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 19 12
"Idiot"
"'She's an idiot,' Kathrine said. 'It's okay, you can say it. She doesn't mind. She fully acknowledges that she's a complete moron. In fact, I'd say she takes an odd pride in it.'"
----------"Ooh! Foreshadowing!" "Shhh. It's rude to point out the foreshadowing."
12,451 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 20 04
I've been writing a glossary along with my novel and adding the words put into that with the rest. I've also been writing my chapters semi-out of order, so It's hard to know where my 10,000 th word came from. Either way, I'm at 10,000 now. By tomorrow, more people will be too, since thats where the 10000 milestone is if you follow the schedule strictly.
25,039 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 10 18
At 10,042 words, my 10,000th word is apparently "I".
The paragraph reads
"Being a faery princess, I get to wear a fancy tiara and some people will feel obligated to bow. If I make it through the party without losing my tiara at least three times, it was a relatively dull party.”
Uh ... whoo-hoo!
----------Jerri LaPoint
http://jerlapoint.com
26,719 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 13 04
"casing"
"He pried open the casing of the radio and grimaced at the mess inside."
My character has just had a rather rough landing and is trying to salvage what he can from the wreckage.
----------“Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you take with you.”
37,987 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 00 50
"Luca's"
' “Not really,” he said, sticking his hands in his pockets and surveying the room. It was a habit of his that I wasn’t really sure whether it was Luca’s or his own. If it was his own, I thought, then he /should/ have no trouble breaking it. '
(I know that the grammar is atrocious, but I'm not deleting anything until December.)
----------http://madelinebemel.livejournal.com
46,679 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 04 56
"uncle"
"Ever since one of the servants had let slip that her uncle was intercepting letters addressed to her, she'd been watching for her opportunity to sneak into his room and have a look."
(Took me a while to pinpoint this little bugger.)
----------All writing begins life as a first draft, and first drafts are never any good. They're not supposed to be.
- Patricia T. O'Conner
75,257 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 06 04
10000th word
Where
as in
"Where had this monkey come from?"
This is right after this monkey had caught a "rat by the ear and held it up to the light, inspecting it for color and smell the way you would a glass of wine."
----------poetT / Teri
ML in the black hat
35,105 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 09 29
"As I turned to face Isabeau, a gorgeous, although sort of plain looking, in a dark and mysterious sort of way, leaned against the locker next to mine, unlit cigarette hanging out of the side of his mouth, although he didn’t smell like cigarettes. Still, I cringed more than slightly at the idea of the smell of smoke."
----------NaNoWriMo 09: Grasps Of Reality
NaNoWriMo 10: The Child Inside {GoR Prequel}
Important Characters: 8
Character Deaths: 1 planned
Dares used: 6
Dream sequences: 3 or 4
Species Used: 5
Beverage Of Choice: Coffee <3
37,426 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 16 17
My word: couldn't
As used in: Anne knew she couldn't keep torturing herself like this, so after weeks of watching it from the table at the side of her bed she brought the little post card downstairs with her.
(Anne just found out she's adopted and was given a post card sent a long time ago with a phone number to call.)
:D
15,525 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 10 18
Mine is "DON'T" all in caps. This must be an omen.
34,004 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 12 56
Okay, it is WAY late in the game for me to just now be getting here, but GUYS. GUYS. THIS IS AWESOME.
I hit 10,000 even at the end of a sentence!
The word was "jabbed".
I'm very excited about this. Hoping to hit 20,000 at the end of a chapter for even more awesomeness. Fingers crossed.
42,233 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 18 43
smile
from: "His smile was a yard wide and he opened his mouth as if to laugh a greeting."
----------Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
10,000 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2009 - 14 18
Ugh. I'm epically late getting to my 10,000th word, but a) it was at the end of the sentence and b) it's my first year doing NaNo, so I'm pretty proud.
"well."
---
"What the HELL are you doing here, Ben?"
He smiled the foolish grin that seemed to suit him so well.
---
42,004 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2009 - 06 10
*MakeAScene487* Good job!
Behind and still going puts you ahead of "behind and quitting."
And epically ahead of never started. Keep it up!
12,744 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2009 - 16 22
HALLELUJAH! I reached 10,000th before my third hour class!
I can tell she’s been staring at that umbrella and asking herself if it’s raining and, if it is, how the umbrella is completely dry.
----------"What are you doing here? I thought I killed you yesterday!" grumbled Albi quite racistly.
"No, Albi. You didn't kill me with your dragon flames. I crawled to safety, but you did leave me very badly disfigured," laughed the boy.
-Flight of the Conchords
15,600 / 50,000
Nov 13, 2009 - 09 48
My 10K word was "Rat", but that's my main character's name.
"I mean, Rat was a pretty normal looking dude... maybe a little heavy, okay."
23,143 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2009 - 21 06
My contribution is... "contribution".
32,084 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2009 - 11 31
"closed"
from
"I leaned against him and closed my eyes."
I was hoping when I finally reached 10k, it would be a badass sentence. Ah well.