I happened to type a period at the end of my sentence, and my word count is
exactly 24,999.
I'm going to stop writing for the evening.
If anyone is reading this before I start again in the morning, what should I put
down as my 25,000th word?
Give me something interesting, but not sabotaging, and I'll work it in.
In other words, something like Pandemonium would work, but Ninja or
Obama will totally fail.
It is the beginning of a paragraph. What is the best work you have used to begin
a paragraph?
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16,383 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 21 29
How about "clandestine"?
----------A moment is all it takes to touch someone's life.
A link to my book of poetry, "Breathing Into The Sunlight", if you're interested:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/351878
6,100 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 21 31
Infiltrating
My 25k word was... aura-ed
:-)
----------2006 - Star Fire - 65k
2007 - Demon's Desire - 100k
2008 - Dead Lines -125k
2009 - Gideon's Gambit - 54k
2009 - Just Desserts - 46k
The Beatings Will Continue Until Word Count Improves!
81,498 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 21 52
Well, the most interesting paragraph starter I have so far is "Preposterous," followed by "Death" in second place. It's depressing how many of my other paragraphs begin with "I" or "The." I think I'm going to make it a personal goal to start more sentences with interesting words . . .
Right, so, my actual suggestion. How about "Tear-stained"? (NaNo counts hyphenated words as 1, right?)
----------Drunkard's Walk
A multi-genre collection of stories concerning Christopher Meriwether Livingstone Battersby: a historian and sometimes-inventor with the unfortunate tendency of randomly jumping to alternate worlds.
56,688 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 22 31
Velvet.
--moot/Diane.
38,175 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 22 33
innuendo
(I'm awed that you guys are at the halfway point already -- awesome work!)
40,035 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 23 08
Sensible answer: It. You can do a lot with "it." :)
Better answer: Cosmic, or Cosmically.
27,603 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 23 59
You are inspiring! Every check of the daily word count graph after I update my stats is an anxious moment for me. These high word counts make me want to write faster and work harder to reach my goal. Too bad I don't show this kind of commitment to learning Perl.
My paragraph starter suggestion :
Perl (the computer language)
or
Pearl (as a proper noun)
or
Pearls (plural of pearl)
~lois aka battlesysadmin
51,288 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 08 23
I don't know how Skneal does it, but my secret is that I have 9 hours
more time each day than the rest of you. I basically take the first three weeks
of November off, and just write.
That also gives me time to do Nano nonos like concentrate on quality.
56,688 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 08 44
What have you chosen as your 25,000th word?
--moot/Diane.
51,288 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 09 29
I love that one!
But 'Clandestine' and 'innuendo' turned out to be better fits for what was going
on in the novel. I'm going to keep 'velvet' in mind for word 50,000.
Word 25,000 was Clandestine:
Clandestine surveillance by occasional traffic camera worked in high traffic areas, and autoteller cameras worked when he was near banks, but there were many long periods where all I had were the GPS updates.
Great suggestions, everyone. Thanks!
P.S. -- Why does this list allow the use of strike, em, cite, and strong, but not b and i?
I can never remember which of those alternatives means italics.
11,872 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 14 57
Midway
Midway between desire and ethics, I....
Midway between Stockton and San Francisco
Midway is an island of historical signifance
Midway I met her at the lawyer's office and lost everything
Midway heaven and hell
81,498 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 22 54
Just to add to the growing list of 25000th words:
If I count chapter titles and such, my actual 25000th word appears to be "that." Kind of boring.
If I remove all the headings from consideration, I get "Joqua," which is the name of a criminal convicted of, in his words, “Vandalism. Theft. Kicking a puppy. The usual.”
Though, this is using the Open Office word counter, which seems to knock about a hundred words off my overall word count when compared to Abiword (which refuses to give me a 25000th word; I can apparently get 24999 and 25001 but not 25000...seriously, Abiword?)
----------Drunkard's Walk
A multi-genre collection of stories concerning Christopher Meriwether Livingstone Battersby: a historian and sometimes-inventor with the unfortunate tendency of randomly jumping to alternate worlds.
16,383 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 23 34
Glad you liked the suggestion, sfield! Sounds like you've gotten the next 25K off to a great start!
----------A moment is all it takes to touch someone's life.
A link to my book of poetry, "Breathing Into The Sunlight", if you're interested:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/351878
11,057 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 16 29
I can never remember which of those alternatives means italics.
em italicizes, strong bolds. Strike produces a
strikeout effect.Cite is sorta weird. On some sites, it sets it in something like Courier New; on others, it's similar to the blockquote tag; on others, it italicizes. NaNo forums' cite tag italicizes, so you can use em or cite for either.
If you can't remember any of them, just play around with them in previews until you find something that works :>
----------Fun fact: those MyBannerMaker image watermarks, in the corner? That's set in Helvetica.
Helveticometer: 55
56,688 / 50,000
Nov 17, 2009 - 22 57
I decided "velvet" was too good a word to let go, so I made sure it was the 25,000th word I typed.
"Velvet pouch for your butts, is it?"
was the comment from one MC to the other.
--moot/Diane.