[trystan830]

the first year i did NaNo, i got all excited and started mid-October too. as it turned out, there was a day that i didn't write at all that november, so that was the day i pasted what i'd previously written into my document and included it in my word count. XD

also, just a tip - if you write/type ANY words - single words, a phrase, a sentence, a whole paragraph - that you want to delete - DON'T. cut them, and paste them at the very end of your document. put them on a new page, maybe even grey them out. this is what's called a Word Graveyard (i forget where i heard the term from now) the thing is, you wrote those words during november, they're yours, and they should count. when you go to get your official NaNo word count (copy all (ctrl-a mostly) the words in your document and paste them in the word count validator on the NaNo site), they'll be in your word count, but not in the story. (my google docs from 2012-2014 still have my Word Graveyard in them too)