Hey there Beautiful Word Warriors!
When you go to the Edit Novel Info page under My NaNoWriMo, you'll notice something new. The Word Count validator is on! We wanted to get the validator up and running a little early to give you time to try it out before we turn on the validator's ability to crown NaNoWriMo winners on November 25th.
Until the 25th, you can just paste your novel into the box, and hit submit, and our robots will count it, and then update your word-count for you. The text is then deleted from our system. The word-count our robots come up with will be slightly different than the count from your word-processor (all word-counters use slightly different methods to determine what counts as a word). So test it out now to see if we're adding to your count, or taking away from it.
Anyhoo, from November 25th through November 30th, everyone who pastes a 50,000-and-over manuscript into the validator will become an official NaNoWriMo 2008 winner, and a shower of certificate-y and web-badge-y goodness will result. I'm looking at the certificate right now, and love it so much that I keep wanting to hug it.
Pasting your 50K+ manuscript into the validator between November 25 and November 30 is the only way to become an official NaNoWriMo winner.
I bolded that so you know we mean business.
And remember: You can scramble that beast before pasting it! Instructions are in the text below the word-count validator.
Shooting for a 4K evening tonight,
Chris
