I am... The Lexivorous Word Witch
74 Adventures at an average of 19,947 words each, and a 61,041 word wrap up...
My hands hurt. My head and back hurt. But I've got a hugified grin.
So, I made it... if you feel like supporting the National Novel Writing Month folks, go check out my Fundraising Page and give as little or as much as you want!
And the math worked out for you folks that want it...
(19,947*74) = 1,476,078
1,476,078 + 61,041 = 1,537,119
Comments
My Gods, that's incredible.
My Gods, that's incredible. Go soak your hands and finger tips becasue you need it now.
This is just amazing.
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May the Stars light your path.
Joy
Zoinks
Blimey, Thats one heck of a book, I can't wait to read it.
Hugs (and a hand massage)
Sam
Smoking keyboard
Maybe we need to put out that fire on your keyboard. I'm sure you've worn it out with all of that! Great going Edeyn!
hugs!
grover
PS: Did you set some kind of record of some kind? Maybe get on the record books! :)
The longest novel in a Latin alphabet...
...would be: Madeleine and Georges de Scudéry's, Artamène at two and a tenth million words, although they were writing as a team. It was published in ten volumes.
Proust was in thirteen volumes.
L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth is in ten volumes, one and two tenths millions of words, and perfectly dreadful, in my humble opinion.
Most of the "Big Books" published as one volume run a bit more than 500,000 words. War and Peace is 1200 pages, 560,000 words. Austin Tappan Wright's Islandia is a bit shorter as published, a little more than a thousand pages, but was cut by a third because of WWII paper restrictions and a few stylistic concerns, posthumously, although some of the redacted material was published as a separate volume. (Fabulous book, well worth reading. I have both volumes in several editions, but I'm a bit of a fan.) The second volume is Introduction to Islandia is by Basil Davenport, but uses a lot of Tappan's words and research material. Tappan, like Tolkien, was *very* thorough.
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Fastest Fingers In The West
The mind boggles! And with a heart attack and trip to hospital in the middle too. Fantastic, Edeyn. did you count your blogs in too?
Joanne
That would be a bit more
That would be a bit more than Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (Remebrance of Things Past).
I'm curious, though, what the math represents. The NaNoWriMo site verifies word counts exactly with no external math at all.
Good job, however. Just making the fifty thousand is a high goal for most people, and there's still a bit of month left.
Puddin'
P.S. Do you have a user name on NaNoWriMo? It would be nice to see your progress...
P.P.S. Whoops! I see it now, not updated yet, but that's not surprising, the official counter seems to lag a bit.
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
For Puddintane
The NaNo Validator breaks at half a million, and the manual wordcount entry only allows 6 digits... So I was just breaking down my actual wordcount for folks. 74 short story adventures, and then a novel-length wrap-up. My NaNoWriMo username is "delayra" if you wanna look at the graphs, my excerpt, and such, go ]here[.