Hey, everyone who's already crossed over or is about to....post your 50,000th word in this thread! With or without context, it's all good.
Last year, mine was Sheriff." -- that's right, a capital, period, and a close-quote. [part of the sentence where a green and white American car showed up on the commune, and printed on its side was "Mendocino County Sheriff."] Naturally, the story wasn't done at that point...that was sort of early in the all-hell-breaks-loose part. (which you can probably guess, if the sheriff was showing up.)
44K and counting, so my 50Kth probably won't be till Friday or Saturday--but let's hear it from you early winners!
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NaNo Winner 2006! Eel River, 80K words, 2 partials, 2 fulls requested so far....
Co-ML, San Francisco Region, 2007
62,959 / 50,000
Nov 21, 2007 - 11 55
in
the word before it was
deadlines
73,300 / 50,000
Nov 21, 2007 - 12 11
herself*
*At least according to my program's count. The NaNo validator has a different count than my program (Scrivener) so I'm not quite sure what it thinks the 50,000th word is.
It's not actually referring to any of the primary characters. It was part of a story one of my characters was telling about the dangers of magic. I was afraid it was going to be a less interesting word like "a" so I'm happy it was at least more letters. :)
Edited to add: Not that I want to cast judgment on what anyone else's 50,000th word or anything. It is, after all, just one word in many many others. I was just rooting for my own word to be more interesting. Lame, I know.
66,221 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 23 25
breathing
53,769 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2007 - 20 17
"that" as in "What does that mean?" Not as interesting as last year, which was "analyzing" but, hey, I'll take it.
Lisa:-))
50,542 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2007 - 20 10
apparent.
From a line of dialogue:
“Yeah, that wouldn’ta been apparent”.
Rich (finger_cramp)
50,315 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 21 26
My 50,000th word is "aware."
As in, "Pretty aware for a five-year-old girl!"
Now I'm going to go upload my novel, then come back here and gaze lovingly at my pretty purple bar. Yay!!!
And yay to everyone else, too, whether you've crossed the 50K line yet or not!
-laure
51,421 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 21 53
fractured
At least, according to WP. This year, the NanoMonkeys think I wrote over 200 words more than the WP Monkeys do, so their opinion might vary.
:o)
50,000 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 22 02
"said"
“Of course, ma’am, but my mother would never let me live it down if I were not contrite for my language.”
“I understand,” Erica said.
50,019 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 00 58
they
was my 50,000th word according to the nanocounters. According to MS word "curtains" was the 50,000th word in media res.
50,046 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 11 22
animal
He didn't know how powerful these animal spirit families were, or how widespread they were, but there was every reason to believe that they would go after his family if they couldn't have him.
61,048 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 14 05
summit
"Two weeks later, as expected, Rueben reached the summit without difficulty; when he reached the ranger station at base camp, he called home with further news."
50,295 / 50,000
Dic 1, 2007 - 03 25
insurance.
Just please, don't ask. Okay? I made it. That is enough...