10,000 word thread

Just made it!
My 10,000th world is 'steel'

Ah, you beat me to it! Had an opportunity to slap the keys again this evening, so punched through 10k a day earlier than expected.

The fateful word was the second "them" in this sentence -

"The friar denounced them as pale imitations of the Spires, and so we discounted them."

Dunx
Winning NaNoWriMo since 2004*.
This Year: The Kissiltur Trilogy, Book 3: Crown

[*] 2006 and 2008 were close, though

Well I didn't think I was going to get there tonight, but I was spurred into a word war, and well, here I am. Rock.

I wanna live till I die, no more, no less. --Eddie Izzard

Words wars are becoming my best friend.

~ To be a real woman is to bring out the best in a man. ~

I didn't think I'd hit 10,000 today, but I did!

Word: bellowed

Sentence/Paragraph: “Okay,” Tuffer bellowed. “We’ll be there at 7:30!”

Whoot!

"If you wish to be a writer, write" Epictetus
2009 Freak Squad: Wraith in Time
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Broke it sometime last night. I think this is the fastest noveling I've ever done.

Word # 10,000: "fared"

As in:
"I’m not sure how any of us would have fared against a pair of Frost Giants showing up out of nowhere.”

I can't believe it flowed so easily so far.

My 10,000 word is " God "

Hilarious! My 5,000th word was "female" and now my 10,000th word is "male." I had to count back twice because I could hardly believe it. Equality of the sexes indeed!

2006 - Ghost Coast
2007 - Children of Trinhodg
2008 - The Lastisto Ambassador
2009 - Daughters of Ashby - In Progress

"family"

a group of people were answering the question:

"What is the most important thing?"

What's your answer?

I'm currently at 13,632, and I have no idea what the exact 10000 word was...or is.

I should hit 15K later tonight.

GP
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2006 NaNo winner - Berlin, Witnesses at the Crossroads of History, Book I
2007 NaNo winner - Berlin, Witnesses at the Crossroads of History, Book II
2008 NaNo winner - Berlin, Witnesses at the Crossroads of History, Book III
2009 -

Yes!! I made it past 10,000 tonight! What a great feeling!! I think I might actually make it to 50,000 at this rate!

Just hit it. My 10,000 word was "or". I work eight hours tomorrow, so I need to get ahead today and at the panera write in on Sunday.
teri

woohoo! the word was "too" and was in the following sentence:

"The bedrooms were pretty nice, too, except for the bedding."

i kind of set myself up to have a happy writting day today-- i stopped yesterday at 9907 words (after writing exactly 2000 words), just so i could open a 10,000 word-goal present from a friend. she made me the cutest little Dotee doll, and the fabric she used has words all over it... she challenged me to use all those words in my story by the time i reach 25,000 words (when i get to open my next pressie!).

so, now i'm off to write some more, after picking up my car... had to get winter tires today ($480, gack!) because i got stuck on a hill in last nights horrible rain and wind, and burned some rubber-- literally-- trying to go around some idiot that thought it was a good idea to stop in the middle of the road. if that much rain slowed me on a hill, well.......

10,000th word - and!
whew...

Nanita

I wasn't even sure I was going to write today, but I'm sure glad I did!

My 10,000th word was a boring "the" in the following sentence: The room we entered was tiled on three walls and a showerhead sprouted from the ceiling.

Whee, I broke 10,000!

Sadly, my 10,000th word is "a." How boring is that?! I will strive to do better for the 15,000th. ;)

Here's the sentence it came from:

"She had 5 cents left in her pocket from sending the telegram earlier, and chose two mints and a chocolate."

Om nom, chocolate!

i should really try to pay attention to the word i land on for these things... :)

I'mat 14,711, so close to post to the 15k thread... I'll try to keep an eye on the word counter this time.

Yesterday --- owned---

Winner 2005: Murder on the Yukon
Winner 2006: On the Barbary Coast
Winner 2007: Aantides and the Peloponnesian War
Winner 2008: Ancestral Voices
Author 2008: Laws of Induction

yay!!! I hit 10k!!

and a truly momentous word: 'the'

heh heh heh. a good day overall... tomorrow I'll try to do more catching up...

Amanda

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Waldorf: What do you care? You don't have a life on this planet.
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Sigh. A terrible writing night for me, but at least I hit 10,000 words.
The word in particular: "suspected" as in...
"Fashion, Jonah suspected, had little to do with real aesthetics, and never anything with practicality; the shirts, he mused, wouldn't be wearable for any errand other than prostitution, attractive as they were."

My handwavy estimate (as I'm doing handwriting and typewriter this year) shoved me over 10,000 this morning. I've got no idea what the actual word was, because there's no way I'm counting every word on the five pages I handwrote today.

Most Words in a Single Day: 6654
Characters: 9
Points of View: 2
Days without Working on Nano: 0
Days without Writing on Nano: 1
Cups of Coffee: 57
Cans of Monster: 18
Cans of Mega Monsters: 1
Conversations with Self: 3
Words: 28208
Headaches: 5

Hit 10,000 words while introducing a new and potential love interest for my character. 10,000th word: Prototype.

"If beauty were to be personified into a male figure, Rafe Miller would be the prototype"

- Nicki

"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery." - Jane Austen

Just hit 10k after pulling an all-nighter last night and STILL haven't gone to bed. The quality of this novel may vary per mileage.

10,000th word: then

“The best we can do is pick one and, if it doesn’t lead to the group, then we turn around and go back.”

Can't you just feel the plot forming? haha.

i am a writer
writer of fictions
i am the heart that you call home
and i've written pages upon pages
trying to rid you from my bones...

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2006 - Ghost Coast
2007 - Children of Trinhodg
2008 - The Lastisto Ambassador
2009 - Daughters of Ashby - In Progress

Just made it. Still got a lot of ground to make up, but that's what I get for going to Vegas in November....

Deny the Impossible

2004: Cards of Change - won
2005: Blood and Asphalt - won
2006: Days of Death and Roses - won
2007: A Roll of the Dice - won
2008: Tricentennial - won
2009: Damsels in Distress

Just made it. Still got a lot of ground to make up, but that's what I get for going to Vegas in November....

And the magic word is "going"

Deny the Impossible

2004: Cards of Change - won
2005: Blood and Asphalt - won
2006: Days of Death and Roses - won
2007: A Roll of the Dice - won
2008: Tricentennial - won
2009: Damsels in Distress

Well, I'm awfully late to this party, but I'm finally made it past the 10K mark and i'm darn proud!

“Writing is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.”

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2008 - Lenore (Horror) - Winner
2009 - No Experience Necessary (Horror)