I know there are a lot of NaNo overachievers, so my suggestion is - why not let them set the goal for their word-count bars? I remember it being a feature on the Young Writer's site last year, and I thought it was great for kids who could not conceivably write 50K in a month, but I think it could work in the opposite direction for the over-achieving adults who don't see the bar as full until 100K is hit. (Obviously, I'm not suggesting the end-of-the-month validators should change, then it wouldn't be NaNoWriMo. ^_^)
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60,054 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 08 03
I think this was discussed at some point this year; It might have been before the forum wipe. Hard to remember. :)
Anyway, I think the reasoning behind not allowing it for NaNoWriMo is that they didn't want people who only wanted to reach 50k to feel like their achievements were less... it wouldn't take long for people to start bragging about "winning" the "real NaNoWriMo".
Personally, I wouldn't mind... as you can see, hitting 50k is not a problem for me. :) And this year I do have a 100k goal, for two books.
----------Heather
Forums Moderator
56,013 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 09 13
I think this is the topic you are thinking of...
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NaNo 2006(win): "Children of the Stars"
NaNo 2007(win): "Darkness Falls"
60,054 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 09 18
Yep, that's the one! I knew it hadn't been discussed much this year, but it HAS been discussed in the past. Thanks for finding that!
----------Heather
Forums Moderator
1,583 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 23 52
The Word Count Widgets allow for a configurable goal this year...
-----------> firebus
-> Web Programmer
-> www.nanowrimo.org
-> www.scriptfrenzy.org
50,215 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2007 - 22 40
Up until today, everyone with more than 50k words looked to me like they had green dots, not bars. I thought that was kind of cool and wondered if they would get two dots at 100k, etc. But it must've been a quirk of my browser to not load the graphics right - only getting the end bits and omitting the part in between. I think that while everyone should get a purple bar at 50k, thereby winning official nanowrimo, it'd be extra motivation for the overachievers if we could also work for green dots.
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Hobgoblin.net
SFFMuse
Whateveresque
60,054 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2007 - 22 55
The green dots were actually a bug. :) They were supposed to be green bars, identical to the blue ones. :) It wasn't just your browser.
----------Heather
Forums Moderator
51,199 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 15 20
I know the green dots were technically a bug, but I liked them! lol ....... Maybe I'll make my own green dot to display when I reach 50k.
Heather
----------Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.
60,054 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 15 50
There you go! No reason you can't have a dot for each 50k you reach in your signature. :)
----------Heather
Forums Moderator
65,670 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2007 - 18 26
Isn't the work around fix to make a second ID and try for another 50k? As an added bonus, you can make yourself a buddy, and you can reply to your own questions, and you'll probably be ready for that aroudn the fifteenth anyway. Right?
----------JanNoWriMo07 - Still Waters Run Deep - >70,000 won (didn't know there was a group!)
AugNoWriMo07 - The Wreck of the Day ->50,000 won (over on Proboards)
NaNoWriMo08 - Fever.
33,083 / 50,000
Jan 4, 2008 - 15 48
Maybe for every 10k you get over 50 you get a green dot. It would be cool.
----------NaNoWriMo '07 - The Gang Wars-33,083 words - Failed
Script Frenzy '08 - Untitled-101 pages - Won
NaNoWriMo '08 - Chaos-0 words so far - Will win
72,308 / 50,000
Jan 4, 2008 - 21 52
The bar graph on the Author Profile page calibrated to whatever count your reached. The the top of the graph was whatever your highest count was. I thought that was great!
I can handle the bar just showing the goal, what I enjoyed the most was seeing my count graph RECALIBRATE!
Keep that feature for next year.
Last year the chart stopped at a certain point, went off the chart, then stopped growing. Yuck.
Check the graphs of the high achievers and see the difference!
LOVED IT!!
----------2006 (Won) Title: I Can't See Myself! -- SciFi/Fantasy -- invisibility
2007 (Won!) Title: The Amber Pendant -- SciFi/Fantasy -- Time Travel Murder Mystery