Friday, 30 November 2007 11:41 pm
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deckardcanineWell, it's a good thing the organizers of NaNoWriMo don't issue any real prizes, because if they did, I'd feel down and out. I completed my story before 11:30 on 11/30, but the site no longer allows me to update my word count, which must mean that they consider it too late. It must be a time zone thing, but since NaNoWriMo started in California, I thought it'd be going by Pacific Standard Time, in which case I'd have another 3+ hours. The site says it ends "midnight, November 30," which could have been ambiguous, but I can tell from a message on the main page that they didn't mean the minute after 11:59 PM on Thursday. Was there another rule I missed, or did they mess up?
Eh, no matter. Technically, I made it. My final word count in Word is 50,711. I don't know what it would be on the NaNoWriMo site, which always counted more for some reason, and the discrepancy kept getting higher -- close to 200 words' difference. And FWIW, if you use 12-point Times New Roman and don't double-space except between paragraphs, it works out to about 90 pages, in contrast to the site's estimate of 175 pages for 50,000 words.
So... yesssss.
If I do this again next year, it might be a sequel of sorts. I didn't come close to exhausting the premises.
Eh, no matter. Technically, I made it. My final word count in Word is 50,711. I don't know what it would be on the NaNoWriMo site, which always counted more for some reason, and the discrepancy kept getting higher -- close to 200 words' difference. And FWIW, if you use 12-point Times New Roman and don't double-space except between paragraphs, it works out to about 90 pages, in contrast to the site's estimate of 175 pages for 50,000 words.
So... yesssss.
If I do this again next year, it might be a sequel of sorts. I didn't come close to exhausting the premises.