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OMG! That is totally hilarious!!!

The summary for one of my stories looked like this (and I'm laughing like mad now cause this could totally be a story all in itself!)

My NaNo story yielded results that are totally uninteresting, including a line about Nepal, one about stolen fish and one about picking locks. *shrugs*.

Just testing my word counter here.

Wish I had known about these earlier.

James

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The above can be found at NaNoWriMo Widgets independent

Okay, I had to try that autosummary, too:

Lindsey nodded.
Lindsey sighed.
Caleb.
Caleb grinned.
Lindsey nodded.
Lindsey shrugged.
"Thanks, Lindsey."
Caleb grinned.
"Lindsey?"
Caleb nodded.

Hmmm... if Word thinks that summarizes the main points of my story, does that mean I'm overusing those particular beats? Worth thinking about.

Got it!

In 100 words or less:
Lois sighed. Clark Kent." "I'm Lois." Clark laughed. "Lois?"

Clark stopped. "Oh, Lois." "Lois?"

Lois sighed. Lois sighed. Lois sighed. "Clark..." Lois sighed. Lois gasped. Lois stood. Lois nodded. "Thanks, Clark. "Clark? "Lois?" Clark nodded. "Clark?" "Morning, Clark."

Clark laughed. "Whatever, Clark. Lois nodded. "Lois." "Clark! Clark! "Um, Lois. "No, Lois. "Clark?" Clark shrugged. Clark shrugged. Lois nodded. Clark teased.

Lois nodded. Lois nodded.
Clark groaned. Clark laughed. Clark grinned. Lois nodded. "Thanks, Clark."

Lois sighed. Lois sighed. Clark laughed. Lois laughed. "Clark?"

"Clark." Clark sighed. Clark sighed. Clark sighed. Clark nodded. Lois nodded. "Thanks, Clark."

*****

"Lois? "Lois, darlin'.

hmmm...this is cool! And funny!


___________________________________

Joseph blinked.
"Richard?" "Richard?"
Joseph flinched.
Richard!
Joseph bellowed.
Joseph cursed. Joseph guessed.
Joseph blinked.
“Joseph?”


Lexy

I tried that autosummary for 10 sentences:

“Clark!”
“Uh, Lois,” Clark interrupted.
“Stop it, Clark!”
“Clark!”
“Clark!”
Especially Clark’s.
Clark asked.
Clark asked.
“Hi, Clark!”
Good idea, Clark.

It's slow going today, but it's going at least. No part of the story is striking my fancy so I've got them playing Scrabble and Lois is trying to get away with chumpy.

Posting the word count may make me do more...

Have to feed C in just a minute, but for now:

21677

Today I *need* to make it to 22000, but I'd really like to make it to at least 23000 [okay 24000 is more necessary - 3600 or so a day if I'm going to make the end of the month...]. Heck, I'd prefer 24000 if there's any way possible...
Carol

I'm glad so many of you are having fun with this still. I may have had to bow out this year before the end but I am proud of my word count. I hung in there for quite a while. ^_^

I'll be cheering the rest of you on to reach 50,000. keep going guys you are all so close!

Go Carol, don't give up. You rock, girl!!


And, hum... those summary things are way more amusing than they have any right to.

For some reason if I run that on my laptop (as opposed to the computer at work...) I get something different for my story. mmm... Makes the story sound all mysterious.

Slow going tonight... 22007

Almost time to feed C. Doubt I'll write any more afterwards. Am very tired. May write more tomorrow...

Will have to see. If I do write more tonight, I'll post an updated number later...

Carol

41623

And that autosummary feature is so addictive and makes my story sound like it belongs in nfic, which it doesn't. At least I don't think it does.

Current auto summary [22540 words]:

"Lois?"

"Lois?"

"Clark..." "Clark? "Clark?" "Clark! Clark! "Clark?" "Clark?"

"Clark."


Still writing. Not holding out much hope that I'll actually finish in the next 6 days but...

Updated word count: 23002
Carol

Random question:
Does an introduction/author's note count towards your word count? Or no? I'm guessing no, but... have to ask ;-) [23108]

28215

Yesterday was a pretty good writing day for me, but today was terrible. I've pretty well resigned myself to not reaching the goal by next Friday, but I still want to make it as far as I can.

My worst problem is that I've reached the point where I have a couple of unresolved issues. Not knowing the answers to these were what kept me from starting this book last summer, and despite nearly 30,000 words, I still don't know the answers. I think instead of just giving up, I'll do my brainstorming as part of the novel itself. Otherwise, I'll have to back off for several days while I figure out where to go next.

Oh, just great!!

I have a trogan virus that is threatening to close down my whole computer and wipe everything out!

I was already one week late and then there was Thanksgiving week with everyone home.

BUT!!!! I'm not giving up to writing this thing in one month's time. Just have to coordinate the month with virus's, kids and RL!

If I get this right, my ten sentence summary:

"Clark!"

"Which one?"

"No, I'm me!"

"No you're not!"

"Yes, I am!"

"Prove it!"

"I can."

"When pigs fly."

"Just ask Lois."

ETA - in my quick reading of this thread because I was thinking it was going to close down or flash more ads, I missread the auto summury.

I don't have enough words to qualif yet, but that was what popped in my head.

Retraction if necessary.

GAH!! I hate viruses!!

Where's Doc Klein when I need him!!

Yes, it does.

From the official post :

SWEET!!!!

/me guesses she can squeeze another 1000 out of that easy *g*.
Carol

516 word Author's note [so far ] brings total count to 23624. Two doc appointments this week sure won't help any...

Removed all contractions [well, mostly - can't to cannot doesn't help any] and am now at 24420

I've been updating my last post, but this deserves it's own:

25000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*twirls everyone around the thread*

Thanks to Kaylle for helping me realize there are 25000 words of story left to write [heck, the GGGOH rewrite part of it alone is probably worth 10K] and for helping me figure out how all the right people survive the confrontation near the pond.
Carol [who is actually at 25046]

congrats to laramoon ... over 40,000!

10:04 pm Central time: 26171

Still going...
Carol

heee! yeah, I just went over 40k. I'd jump for joy, but I'm just too tired right now.

Way to go Carol on going over 25 - that's wonderful! Keep it up!

Everyone else, too. Let's go gang, we can do this!