Woo! I'm almost 100 words into my 50,000! That's what, one five-hundreth of my novel? The daily minimum (if you don't ever miss a day) is 1666, but I'm going to aim for 2000 a day. It's do-able.

Oh, and for those of you who don't have a text editor with a word count feature, the Nano website has opened up the validator to be used all month. You just save your file as a text file, upload it, and your word count is automatically updated. That's how I know I have 94 words so far. One thing I need to test is whether or not it counts compound words (joined with a hyphen) as one or two words. Microsoft Word counts them as one. I hate that. [Update: It does count them as one. So I guess I'll be putting a space after the hyphen for words that should really count as two.]

http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/wordcount/index.php