Gibbous Moon Waning

[altivo]

Made it. My word processor says 50,384 words as of 9:15 tonight. When I dumped it into the validator routine at NaNoWriMo.org, though, it came out as 52,293. Evidently they're pretty generous about what they consider to be a "word." Anyway, it was enough to "win" the NaNo this year. It was not, by far, enough to complete the novel. That will be going on for some time yet.

I will have some excerpts for you tomorrow sometime, to more or less wrap up Francis' part of the story so you have some closure. The entire exposition of the complex plot will have to wait until I've rewritten and done a lot of editing, but I do intend to post it somewhere briefly for comments.

Thanks for all the encouragement, everyone. Hoof-claps to corelog too, for finishing NaNo on his second time out. I didn't make quota until my second attempt either.

(Oh, and in the midst of getting 5200+ words written today, I managed to prepare dinner for guests, including turkey tetrazzini, home made focaccia, broccoli with hollandaise sauce, and home made lemon meringue pie. In return for being fed, they nicely hauled away a pickup load full of sheep poop that they wanted for their garden. So there is more to life than writing still.)

And tomorrow I don't have to think about NaNo for a while.

Comments

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Yay you! Congratulations!

Now you can have normal life again, whatever that is. :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I don't think I remember what "normal life" is. Maybe I never had one. ;p

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on passing NaNoWriMo!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

This is the third success in five tries. Probably I should make the effort to submit one of these for publication. Thanks.

[rustitobuck.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I'm kind of looking forward to reading the whole thing in one piece. Will that be available at some point?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That's the plan, though I'm not sure how long it will take me to put all these pieces together properly. I'm guessing that only half of it is actually down now.

[farhoug.livejournal.com]

That's one busy day! Congrats!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's November for ya. I don't think I'd have succeeded if I went to MFF on top of all the other stuff. Thanks.

[baphnedia.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Has Argos gotten the word yet? I haven't seen so much of a peep out of him all month...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Argos has been quietly waiting for me to get off the word processors and back to the spinning and weaving.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

I could not help having a peek at your teasers (despite saying I would wait.) Looking forward to it a lot.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid it may be a while before the whole thing is assembled in order. It's probably only half written at the moment, but the shape of the story is now well defined. When it's all in one draft, I will post it again, at least for a week or two.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

Nice! Take a break and collect your thoughts.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hee. More like take a break and pick up all the neglected stuff I've pushed aside over the past month. I dunno why they do this in November. Originally it was July.

[corelog.livejournal.com]

You give me more credit than I'm due. :) I did NaNo last year, but conked out halfway through.

And nice that the NaNo validator was generous to you. It was far less generous to me, taking about 200 words off my word processor's count.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

My slippery memory. Fixed now.

I suspect the validator wasn't THAT generous. More likely I failed to enter a segment in the spreadsheet I was using to keep track of word counts, and I passed 50K Sunday morning before I started cooking. ;p

[kingodin.livejournal.com]

Congrats on making the goal. I myself haven't written any fiction in a while, but I've compensated with plenty of non-fiction ^_~

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. This one wasn't easy and isn't finished, but I've had lots of practice.

[herefox.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, belatedly! I'm much behind on lj, I'm afraid.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Understandable. You seemed to be stuck in one spot for a long time, but I see you finished as well. Now back to that knitting! XD

I got behind on LJ too. I was bound to the keyboard so tightly for the last week that I got blisters.

uh...okay, what just happened?

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

I'm a little confused- you won? made it in before the deadline? *scratches my head*

Re: uh...okay, what just happened?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I completed a minimum of 50,000 words in less than 30 days.

See http://www.nanowrimo.org/ for details.