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Well, 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.

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I've now noticed that the audio transcripts I've edited in the last couple of months aren't nearly as problematic as the ones I've cited here before. Fewer errors, none bewildering, and none looking like they were made by a machine or a fictional character. I can only assume that we have a different set of transcribers.

It feels like the end of an era. Without the laughable errors, transcript editing is even more of a drag.