Nanowrimo bust

This morning I got to 50,300 words on my nanowrimo escapade and thought I might as well paste the words into the box provided to get my badge or cup or whatever. It’s not a novel but a novella and a half. The half is Brigstowe Dragons III which is getting longer as I write (novelling makes you verbose) so long, in fact, that there will have to be a Brigstowe Dragons IV.

But, Lo! When I pasted it all in the nanobox it came up with a word count of less than 50,000 which it explains by telling me no two word counters work the same. I am 700 words short. It’s not good enough.

Since I was only using nano to train myself in bashing out 2000 words a day the result is irrellevant. It’s not even a novel. Still, it’s disappointing and may be crushing for someone who pounds the keys until midnight tonight, thinks they’ve just made it and then finds out that a dodgy word counter has condemned them to failure.

I may bash out 700 more words anyway as I still have to finish the book but this is a glitch I didn’t expect.