I'm over 20,000, too. Almost near 25,000. (My original goal was 10K, but I upped it to 15K when I passed 10K early on, then upped it again to 20K when I passed 15K). Good to know about the validator. My word processor counts my asterisk breaks as individual words (* * * * * = 5 words) so I replaced those with the word BREAK to make it less hinky, and that knocked my word count down a bit. For hypenated words, I put a space between them, so hopefully that won't be a confusion (some programs count them as separate words, some as one). I want to see if I can get closer or to 25 K before I validate, though, even though my goal is 20K because I would really like to get halfway to a full NaNoWriMo, if I can.
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I'm over 20,000, too. Almost near 25,000. (My original goal was 10K, but I upped it to 15K when I passed 10K early on, then upped it again to 20K when I passed 15K). Good to know about the validator. My word processor counts my asterisk breaks as individual words (* * * * * = 5 words) so I replaced those with the word BREAK to make it less hinky, and that knocked my word count down a bit. For hypenated words, I put a space between them, so hopefully that won't be a confusion (some programs count them as separate words, some as one). I want to see if I can get closer or to 25 K before I validate, though, even though my goal is 20K because I would really like to get halfway to a full NaNoWriMo, if I can.