Dammit...

[azurelunatic]

So Google Docs counts higher than NaNo does. So I've got another two thousand words to do. No problems!

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[nightsinger.livejournal.com]

The official NaNo counter has me a bit short as well; 20-30 words or so.

But! I am excited; I only have another 2500 words to go before the big 50k!

Best of luck on your last two thousand to go! *cheer*

[azurelunatic]

Gdocs had me at 50,045. Nano had me at 48,300-odd. Grr.

[pauamma]

Maybe gdocs counts some punctuation as words? (likely not all punctuation - 1 punctuation mark every 25 words would be very hard to read.)

[azurelunatic]

I'm thinking it might treat hypenated words differently.

[nightsinger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does -- methinks the Official NaNo counter considers hyphenated words to be one word, whereas MSword and, I think, GDocs, counts it as two (or however many).

I changed my hyphens to spaces for my last upload of the night last night, and my wordcount leapt about 400 words.

Very weird!

[azurelunatic]

I hadn't realized that I used that many hyphenated words, but when you think about it, when there are phrases like "He-who-must-not-be-named", that adds up...