Did anyone else actually win Nanowrimo 09?
By cripfemme
@cripfemme (7698)
United States
December 8, 2009 6:58pm CST
I did. By ten words. I've competed five times but never got close enough to actually use the word count validator. I thought I had 50,020 words but according to Nanowrimo's word counter I had 49,189. This meant I had to come up with 800 extra words in three and a half hours. This is on top of already having used every creative impulse in my brain and also being involved in two poetry events and a short story competition that were going on at the same time. I've never had writer's block so badly in my life. But, I made it by ten words and 38 minutes to go. Did anyone else have word count discrepancies or wait till the last half and hour to make it? I want both your horror and your happy stories.
2 responses
@AllenWiggs (404)
• United States
11 Dec 09
I did not win this year. I did have a few friends who won though. Congrats on winning though!
@Rose_Ellen (50)
• United States
9 Dec 09
Congrats. I did not win but I had several friends that did. I think I need to get better at just writing before I can pump out that level of volume. Hence I'm now on mylot and associatedcontent.

