Nanowrimo Week 4:
11/22/16: 779 words
11/23/16: 1509 words
11/24/16: 0 words
11/25/16: 2237 words
11/26/16: 1578 words
11/27/16: 1007 words
11/28/16: 1294 words
11/29/16: 2021 words
11/30/16: 1875 words
Total word count (2nd Novella): 23308 words
Total word count (Nanowrimo): 50015 words
I have officially finished Nanowrimo. I have decided not to validate it on the Nanowrimo website, because I actually did try to but it’s not very easy copy and pasting from Scrivener. I had to import each individual chapter from each novella and after copy and pasting each thing in, I had missed a chapter somewhere but wasn’t sure which chapter had gone missing.
Oh well. I know I completed it. I was so relieved that I managed to make up for my days of not writing at all this month. I wanted to complete these projects and dedicate December to editing my other projects. I didn’t want to fall behind on this deadline.
This week proved difficult though, since I finished my novella’s storyline long before I actually reached my word count. At about 17.5k words, I realized that I had covered everything in my outline and wasn’t sure where to go next. So, I just went about reading each chapter and adding to it what I could. It was a frustrating project because the novella wasn’t particularly inspiring. I don’t value only working under inspiration though, and I’m very pleased to have finished it.
I hope that all of you were also successful in finishing your Nanowrimo projects this year. If not, there’s always next year to try again. Or you can just keep writing into December. There’s never a wrong time to finish up a project.
Edit: I did validate finally validate my word count so I am now an official winner. Woo!
Congrats on winning! I had no trouble cutting and pasting with Scrivener. If you catch this before midnight, give this a try. First, compile all your sheets. Open up the document and “select all.” And then you copy it and paste it in to the validation box. It took me less than a minute. The longest part was waiting for Scrivener to paste the massive amount of copy. Good luck on that. Even if you don’t validate, you should try compiling just to see how to do it.
Neverwriter,
Thank you so much! I compiled it and just copied from there and it worked wonderfully. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this. I kept trying the feature of scrivener where you view the whole text at once but I couldn’t copy it all from there. This was very helpful and I have now validated the word count! Hooray!
Best wishes,
Eliza
So glad to hear that.